Texans Under God

Did They Know?
© 2008 Al Lee, all rights reserved

Did they know the way it would turn out
When they set us on this path?
Did they see the future bright as day
And know we’d face His wrath

Or did they hope we’d overcome
Through goodness and virtue
The destiny of weaker men
Who lacked the Faith they knew

For Faith is the salvation
Of men who would be free
Because freedom can not live without
Sincere morality

How much Our Fathers sacrificed
To pass this gift to us
In hopes we would remember
That it wasn’t always thus

That to be free was a right they‘d won
For the Good it was reserved
And our freedom would soon vanish
When it no longer was deserved

In a world that mocked and jeered at us
Unsophisticated fools
We reached the highest pinnacles
We won the finest jewels

And each time Old World tyrants
Rose to conquer and enslave
We marched beside our brethren
And we fought unto the grave

Not the majesty of our mountains
Nor the splendid shining sea
Were what lifted us to greatness
But that men could live as free

What made our nation great and strong
Was our Goodness and Belief
When they be lost, then so are we--
Our Fathers’ deepest grief

And the freedom was God-given
Not what laws or men decree
And could not from us be severed
Save by only you and me

But as time marched forth that freedom-right
We failed to understand
Was only for the Righteous
Not for any other man

With the right to worship as we wished
We on the Bible trod
As we started to believe that man
No longer needed God

For had we not the intellect
To truly understand?
And could we not decide ourselves
What’s Right and Wrong for Man?

Thus we drifted far apart from
Our Founders’ inspired vision
And removed God’s Word that directed them
In every decision

Relying on the wisdom
That we believed we had
We erased the lines that separated
What was Good from Bad

Without the Laws God laid down for us
In perpetuity
We wandered aimless into
Moral Ambiguity

By the God of Our Fathers
We’re not governed any more
Thus the freedom that he gave us
Crumbles withered to the floor

For a “moral and religious people”
Was our Constitution made
For “any other, inadequate”
Is what John Adams said

So the Founding Fathers did know
This would be our destiny
If we forgot the One who freed us
We no longer would be free

--Al Lee
November 15, 2008


"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship."
—Patrick Henry

"A churchless society is most assuredly a society on the downgrade."
—Theodore Roosevelt

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker."
—John Adams

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
—John Adams

“It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape.”
—Joseph Story

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry. would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —John Adams