Rebirth Needed

              File, Russell H 
File, Russell H. 
rom: 
Friday, August 1 1, 2000 9:14 AM 
,ent: 
File, Russell H. 
To: 
Jerry Falwell Communications - 
Subject: 
10, 2000 
ATE: August 
FROM: Jerry Falwell 
NATIONAL REBIRTH NEEDED: As 1 compose this column, 1 realize there 
in the midst of 
are some who might think it strange that I would 
� write about a great crisis in 
our unparalleled national prosperity 
our nation. However, in spite of outward signs of our national 
success, I believe we are actually on the brink of national 
destruction. And if we do not awaken now, I fear it will soon be too 
late to reverse this course. Our Founders and other great statesmen 
of our nation's early life understood that this nation would not 
survive on the basis of its material strength. We have never been 
more prosperous than today. Yet, we have never been so secular and 
pagan. We are becoming both amoral and immoral. We are making 
secularism our national religion. The government and the courts have 
not neutral to religion as the Founders intended 
openly 
become 
hostile to Christianity. And, as we look with sadness at our internal 
demise, we cannot any longer ignore that external enemies are 
growing. The Clinton administration has given our military and 
nuclear secrets to the Chinese who have, 
foes. We have been victimized 
part of our leaders . 
e have come today to a great crisis of 
character, a crisis that will determine 
I think that that is the lesson that we 
the travails of the last several years . 
the crisis of one man, one president in 
in turn, given them to other 
by traitorous behavior on the 
national moral 
the future of our liberty. 
ought to be seeing in 
We have not been watching 
moral free-fall. We have 
rather been watching the collapse of our culture and, the repudiation 
"Ye shall seek me and find me, when ye 
of the Judeo-Christian ethic . 
(Jeremiah 29 : 13) 
shall search for me with all your heart. " 
I begin by 
I wish to propose a solution to America's dilemma. 
asking a question: What is the greatest document ever written by man? 
I believe the greatest document written in the history of mankind is 
the Declaration of Independence, the birth certificate of the United 
States of The United States Constitution is a magnificent 
document and no nation in history has such a charter of incorporation 
But the Constitution is, in reality, an outgrowth of the Declaration 
of Independence and could never have been written without the 
courageous and brilliant composition of our national birth 
certificate . 
The words are inspiring: "We hold these truths to be self 
evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by 
their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are 
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. " What's more, 56 
American heroes signed it, many of them later paying with their lives 
I believe this is the greatest document ever written 
and fortunes . 
not for its beauty, even though it is penned in beautiful, prosaic 
mnglish; not for its simplicity and clarity, although it is 
anderstood by the smallest child; and not for its judicial logic, 
though lawyers and courts still examine it thoroughly and often for 
its legal brilliance. 
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