American Minute with Bill Federer ‘The criminal is the product of spiritual starvation’- J. Edgar Hoover
The director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, died MAY 2, 1972.For 48 years, under eight Presidents, J. Edgar Hoover oversaw the Federal Bureau of Investigation, becoming famous for his dramatic campaigns to stop gangsters and organized crime.
Hoover established the use of fingerprints in law enforcement and successfully tracked down well-known criminals.
FDR gave Hoover the task of investigating foreign espionage and left-wing activist groups.
J. Edgar Hoover stated:
“The criminal is the product of spiritual starvation. Someone failed miserably to bring him to know God, love Him and serve Him.”
In the introduction to Edward L.R. Elson’s book, America’s Spiritual Recovery, 1954, J. Edgar Hoover wrote:
“We can see all too clearly the devastating effects of Secularism on our Christian way of life.
The period when it was smart to ‘debunk’ our traditions undermined…high standards of conduct.
A rising emphasis on materialism caused a decline of ‘God-centered’ deeds and thoughts.”
J. Edgar Hoover continued:
“The American home…ceased to be a school of moral and spiritual education.
When spiritual guidance is at a low ebb, moral principles are in a state of deterioration. Secularism advances when men forget God.”
Russian author Dostoevsky, in his book The Brothers Karamazov, had the character Ivan Karamazov contended that if there is no God, “everything is permitted.”Get the book, America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations
In McGuffey’s Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide, 1853, William Holmes McGuffey wrote:
“If you can induce a community to doubt the…authenticity of the Scriptures…
whether there be an eternal state of retribution beyond the grave;
or whether there exists any such being as God,
you have broken down the barriers of moral virtue, and hoisted the flood-gates of immorality and crime.”
Samuel Adams stated January 17, 1794:
“A virtuous education is calculated to reach…the heart, and to prevent crimes…
Such an education, which leads the youth beyond mere outside show, will impress their minds with a profound reverence of the Deity.”
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote in Essays-Literary, Moral, and Philosophical:
“In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, I
lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…We neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of the Bible.”
Noah Webster wrote in his History of the United States, 1832:
“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
U.S. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen wrote:
“The Bible… Seal up this one Volume and in a half century all these hopes would wither and these prospects perish forever.
These sacred temples would crumble or become the receptacles of pollution and crime.”
President James Buchanan proclaimed a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer, December 14, 1860:
“In this the hour of our calamity and peril to whom shall we resort for relief but to the God of our fathers. His omnipotent arm only can save us from the awful effects of our own crimes.”
In 1981, Chuck Colson stated:
“Imprisonment as a primary means of criminal punishment is a relatively modern concept.
It was turned to as a humane alternative to the older patterns of harsh physical penalties for nearly all crimes.
Quakers introduced the concept in Pennsylvania…”
Chuck Colson continued:
“The first American prison was established in Philadelphia when the Walnut Street Jail was converted into a series of solitary cells where offenders were kept in solitary confinement.
The theory was that they would become \’penitents,’ confessing their crimes before God and thereby gaining a spiritual rehabilitation. Hence, the name “penitentiary”-as a place for penitents.”
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