"Founding Father George Mason, while he was a Virginia delegate at the Constitutional Convention, said, 'As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.'"
"'Thomas Jefferson asked, 'Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift from God?'"
Missionary Johnny Esposito in his book, 'America at War'