FDR: Christian Religion Over The Forces of Evil and Darkness
Pastor Dewey Moede
American Minute with Bill Federer
“Inevitable Victory of Freedom Over Oppression, of Christian Religion over the Forces of Evil & Darkness”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Minute with Bill Federer: On AUGUST 22, 1935, President Franklin D. Rooseveltgreeted by Telephone the Bi-Centennial Celebration of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri:
“The history of the town of Sainte Genevieve eloquently testifies to the fortitude of those pioneers who built their homes on the western bank of the Mississippi
and wrested minerals from the hills, furs from the forest, and a plentiful harvest from the plain;
who merged their varied nationalities in a mighty effort to carve an American Nation out of the Western wilderness…”
Franklin Roosevelt continued:
“We admire that Christian courage which refused to be daunted by Indian depredations and massacres,by a gradual change in the course of the Mississippi threatening the destruction of the settlement, or by the disastrous flood of 1785.
In due course, through the rugged efforts of your predecessors, the hostile Indians were pacified; and the restless Mississippi, far from annihilating the community, provoked a providential removal of the church and other buildings to a better site where the village could expand and flourish.
…These triumphs over affliction are characteristic of the spirit of our early Americans.
Although the problems which confront us today are of a different sort, I am confident that you have not lost the stalwart qualities of frontier days.”
On AUGUST 22, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a cable to President Vargas on Brazil’sDeclaration of War:
“I have been informed that the United States of Brazil has today recognized that a state of war exists betweenBrazil, on one hand, and Germany and Italy on the other hand…
…This solemn decision more firmly aligns the people of Brazil with the free peoples of the world in a relentless struggle against the lawless and predatory Axis powers…
As brothers in arms, our soldiers and sailors will write a new page in the history of friendship…between your country and mine.
…The action taken today by your Government has hastened the coming of the inevitable victory of freedom over oppression, of Christian religion over the forces of evil and darkness.”
On NOVEMBER 9, 1940, President Franklin D Roosevelt recited an old prayer from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer:
“In a year which has seen calamity and sorrow fall upon many peoples elsewhere in the world may we give thanks for our preservation…
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage;
We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will…
Save us from violence, discord, and confusion…
Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues…”
FDR continued:
“Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government,
that there may be justice and peace at home,
and that, through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth…
In the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; Amen.”
Clarence Manion, Dean of Notre Dame Law School, was chosen by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to chair a commission to return to the States powers that had been usurped by the Federal government during Roosevelt’s New Deal Era.
When Eisenhower declined Manion’srecommendations in favor of a Republican big government, Manionwas released from the administration.
Manion went on to pioneer talk radio with The Manion Forum, the nation’s premier conservative radio program during the 1950s-60s.
He interviewed and was friends with leaders, such as: General Douglas MacArthur, Barry Goldwater, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Harry Byrd Sr., Henry Regnery, Stan Evans, and Phyllis Schlafly.
The movement Manion helped lead profoundly influenced Ronald Reagan.
Clarence Manion wrote in The Constitution of the United States Versus Communism, November 19, 1962:
“Never before in the history of the human race has atheism–naked, materialistic, power-hungry, activated atheism–ever mounted its horse and started to ride across the world and do it so successfully.
Communism is this activation of atheism. This is the personalization of anti-God. This is Armageddon.
And anybody in this room who has a shred of belief in God or immortality or in his or her personal responsibility … must recognize that the understanding and the defeat of Communism is the first order of business on the part of everybody who has a shred of interest in the perpetuation of Christian civilization. This thing must be destroyed.”
A military leader who expressed faith was four-star General “Stormin Norman” Schwarzkopf.
Born AUGUST 22, 1934, he served in Vietnam, commanded the U.S. forces in Grenada and Desert Storm, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and knighted by the Queen of England.
In an interview regarding the Gulf War, General Norman Schwarzkopf of Central Command (CENTCOM), stated:
“I asked for my principle staff to meet me in the war room down in the basement, a half an hour before `H hour’…
I read them the message…And then I asked the chaplain to say a prayer, and then I played `God Bless the USA’…
I think it characterized the pride that all of us have in our profession, and in what we were, and there’s a line in there that says ‘I would proudly stand next to you, and defend her still today’
and that’s what it was all about. And I said, ‘Now, we all know what we need to do. Now let’s get on with it.'”
In a Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert of NBC News, February 8, 2003, General Norman Schwarzkopf remarked:
“‘What do we do with Osama bin Laden?’…they asked me, ‘Can we forgive him?’
And I said ‘Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting.’ And that’s the way I feel about him, really.”
Having acknowledged during an interview, in 1991, that he kept a Bible by his bed, General Schwarzkopf was asked if he had a favorite verse. He replied:
“Actually, it’s a prayer of St. Francis: “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.”
On December 22, 1990, President George H.W. Bushwas asked by the press:
“There continues to be reports that American servicemen are not being allowed to wear American flag patches on their uniforms. There continues to be restrictions by the Saudis on religious materials.”
President Bush responded:
“I’ve discussed this with our commanding General, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and I am satisfied that our young men and women over there will be able to do what every other American family will be doing-thanking God for our many blessings at Christmas.”
In a 1991 interview with David Frost, General Schwarzkopfdescribed an extreme flanking maneuver to cut off the Iraqi retreat:
“When my forward commander radioed that they had reached the Euphrates River … I waited…
‘General,’ he said, ‘I’ve got to tell you about the casualties.’ I braced myself. ‘One man was slightly wounded.’
