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Christ today.

Tragically, Satan has enlisted Christians as some of the chief promoters of his lies. There
have been a great many books published, and sermons preached, that are promoting the
idea that America has a divine form of government, and that it is a Christian nation. The
images of America’s founding father’s are whitewashed to make them appear saintly. When
great effort is set forth with the aim to promote a righteous and holy image of men who
were not Christians, but who were members of Luciferian organizations such as
Freemasonry, then the prudent disciple should be wary.

George Washington and the Cherry Tree

Every boy and girl in American public school has heard the story of little George
Washington and the cherry tree. It is said that George received a new axe, and wanting to
try it out as young boys will, he chopped down one of his father’s prize cherry trees. When
his father discovered his tree had been chopped down, we are told that little George,
knowing well that he would be punished, did not hide his transgression, but said. “Father,
I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree.” This story was a fable devised by a
minister who wrote two biographical works on the life of George Washington not long after
the first President had died.

[The story] was invented by a parson named Mason Locke Weems in a biography of
Washington published directly after his death. Saturated with tales of Washington's
selflessness and honesty, “A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits, of General
George Washington”(1800) and “The Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes
Laudable to Himself and Exemplary to his Countrymen”(1806) supplied the American
people with flattering (and often rhyming) renditions of the events that shaped their hero.
Weems imagined everything from Washington's childhood transgression and
repentance to his apotheosis when "at the sight of him, even those blessed spirits seem to
feel new raptures."
[Source: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/gw/gwmoral.html]

This minister created fictitious tales to magnify the character of the nation’s first President
and America’s top military leader of the Revolutionary War. It reveals something about the
spirit behind such works when the men writing these stories resort to fabricating a false
history. Lying is not a practice encouraged by Christ, but it is very much promoted by Satan.