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Some people consider it their duty to keep 
any notion of God away from the public.

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Yet our founding fathers actually set up 
our government using the Bible as a source 
book.

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They considered the principles of Christianity 
so key to America’s founding that President 
George Washington stated,

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“If I could have entertained the slightest 
apprehension that the Constitution framed 
in the Convention, where I had the honor 
to preside,

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might possibly endanger the religious rights 
of any ecclesiastical society, certainly 
I should never have placed my signature to 
it.”

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The Bible helped form our nation; we should 
continue to recognize its importance to our 
lives today. I’m Mac Hammond, and this is 
the Winner’s Minute.