The visceral rhetoric continues as the opponents of President Donald Trump pile on with accusations of racism and white supremacism. Over and over again, using every opportunity, this president is being characterized as a racist and white supremacist by Democrats and the media. The shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH, fueled the flames of outrageous politicization of mass killings. Leaders of this country are so busy labeling people who disagree with them with derogatory names that the horror of what happened, the lives it took and impacted, are just a sidebar to a greater agenda. Shame on these politicians for wasting no time in using this crisis of death for political gain.

Democratic presidential frontrunner, Joe Biden (D-DE), told CNN, “This is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson. We went through this before in the ‘20s with the Ku Klux Klan, 50,000 people walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in pointed hats and robes…We went through it after the Civil War in terms of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy.”

The immediate past president also poked at Trump: “We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people.”

Trump responded to the shootings by stating: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.”

Then he went on to reasonable solutions to the problem—1) identifying early warning signs to detect mass shooters before they strike; 2) stop the glorification of violence in our society, including the gruesome and grisly video games; 3) reform mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence; and 4) ensure that those posing a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms, and that, if they do, those firearms can be taken through rapid due process.

Every instance is being used to characterize Trump and those who may support him as racists, bigots, and white supremacists. Other than banning guns—which is proven not to work in California, Chicago and Baltimore—they have no concrete solutions.

But who is offering condolences, condemnation of these accusations, and solutions to the problem? Who is saying, “Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside—so destructive—and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion, and love?” Trump, that’s who.

Who is fanning the flames of division?

Christ said in Matthew 12:25, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”

He also asked how can Satan drive out Satan. Indeed.

Have a blessed and powerful day,

The Daily Jot Staff

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There is much debate within the Christian community about whether the Founding Fathers were Christian or if their legacy has been a carefully crafted lie.

Some now say that America was not formed by Christians and did not reflect a nation founded in the name of Christ. In 2011 for example, Filmmaker Chris Pinto appeared on radio and television shows lambasting David Barton of Wallbuilders for misleading Christian Americans about the foundation of Christ as the cornerstone of this nation. While I am not a historian, it is of interest to me.

It is a fact that this United States of America had predominantly Christian roots at its founding, and its laws are based on the laws of the Bible.

The land was claimed in covenant with God to advance the Christian faith over 150 years BEFORE the Declaration of Independence. In1565, the Protestant French Huguenots, who came to what is now Florida to escape persecution, were martyred by Catholic Spanish troops.

The 1606 Jamestown Charter from King James stated:

“…in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government…”

The Mayflower Compact 16 years later proclaimed:

“Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia…”

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America may not all have been Christians. They knew, however, that the Holy Scriptures contained in the Bible were the basis for all law. They unabashedly based the formation of the nation upon the laws of the God of the Bible. One can find Biblical principles throughout the Declaration and the Constitution.

On January 10, 1963, Florida Congressman A.S. Herlong, Jr. read into the Congressional Record the 45 stated goals of communism from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen. Numbers 27-30 stated:

“27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

Those trying to say that, because the Founders were not necessarily Christian, our nation is inherently evil, are liars and deceivers. Rest assured that God was in control of forming this nation for His good purpose.

You can be both a patriot and a Christian—the freedom of one confirms the other.

Have a blessed and powerful day,

The Daily Jot Staff

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