Top Pentagon Officers Face Discipline for Endorsing Christianity

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The Military and Christianity, the American Precedent.

General Washington, took the Lord's Supper at Morristown, N.J. from a Presbyterian minister, and by his executive orders strongly supported a military chaplaincy. Yale College President Timothy Dwight (1795), earlier served as a Chaplain to his Revolutionary War Connecticut Company along with Nathan Strong. These are typical examples from that day, and serve as an Establishment by Gen. Washington himself, of a Christian Chaplaincy.

There are 4 Biblical Theological clauses in the Declaration of Independence: 1. All men created, 2. Endowed by their Creator, 3. Supreme Judge of the World, 4. Protection of Divine Providence.

The Constitution closes with: "in the year of our Lord 1787."

Declaration Signer John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian Minister, and President of Princeton College, trained more American politicians than Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth at the time, and Biblical theology at Princeton was a requirement for graduation. James Madison, architect of the U.S. Constitution was his premier student, along with may others of high government and military rank.

New Jersey's Governor Samuel L. Southard, who also served as President of the U.S. Senate, and Secretary of the Treasury and War, was a Princeton Graduate, (A.M. 1804.)
In an important Address to Princeton's secretive Whig and Cliosophic societies in 1837 he states: "the importance of the study of the Bible, in forming the character of literary and scientific men, of scholars of every guide and every occupation, suggestions, which I hope, will not be inappropriate to the first literey exercise, in this edifice, which has been reaered from its ashes, for the worship of the Author of that Book." (Source: "Governor Southard's Political Discourse at Princeton, 1837). And this, from a 1825 Secretary of War.