Email from OCPAC December 7 and Presidential reminders of the nation's Christianity Published Monday, December 9, 2024 NEXT MEETING MEETING 2025 JANUARY 15 Featuring: Dr. Jonathan Ashbach SEE DETAILS BELOW. Send this newsletter to a friend here. BOB LINN 1941's Christmas Surprise: Pearl Harbor I meant to talk a bit today about Christmas, Immanuel, and last week's program. However, at the very last moment, I felt it might be beneficial to point out some of the December 7, 1941 reminders I received from Bill Federer, one of our foundation's board members. ________ Last weekend, the nation remembered Japan’s assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Japanese air assault brought 350 aircraft which sank five American battleships and three more destroyers. America lost 400 aircraft and over 4,000 were killed or wounded. It was a war in which more than 40 other nations were entangled. It was a day that President FDR spoke of as the “Day that will go down in infamy.” The response of U.S. President FDR is interesting in the context of the leftist banter we hear about on a regular basis. We hear from political pundits about the separation of church and state. Here in Oklahoma, we hear them complain that the Bible is the one book that does not belong in the classroom. While sexual perversion may be taught, the Bible may not be taught. We also hear from the political left that patriotism is really Christian nationalism, a new term describing, for the WOKE folks, ideological evil. Author and speaker, Bill Federer, is also an OCPAC Foundation board member and over the weekend, provided in his American Minute some interesting detail on the immediate response to what was becoming a world war eighty-three years ago. Before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, FDR, on January 24, 1941, wrote the prologue of a special edition of the Gideons’ edition of the Bible being distributed to millions of of U.S. armed forces. He said: As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States ... Then, immediately after the bombing, he declared that the following week, December 8-14, 1941, to be National Bible Week. On the day of the bombing, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) radio invited the National Bible Association to read the Bible on the public airwaves. Bill Federer wrote in last weekend’s American Minute: The National Bible Association website states: On Sunday December 7th, 1941 the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) which was a leading national radio station at the time, invited the founders of the National Bible Association to open programming for the day which was Sunday. As they began their reading, bulletins came in from Hawaii announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Instead of just opening the day with one Bible reading NBC then asked the National Bible Association to continue reading the Bible all day between the bulletins about Pearl Harbor. From William J. Federer’s book The Faith of FDR, we read the following quotes. As you read them, keep again in mind the leftist mantra of separation of church and state, no Bibles in school, and no Bible teaching in school. I close with these FDR quotes form Federer's book: THE WHOLE WORLD is divided between ... pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom which is the Christian ideal. ~FDR, May 27, 1941 Address Announcing Unlimited National Emergency. PRESERVATION OF THESE rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them but to the whole future of Christian civilization. FDR, September 1, 1941, Labor Day. THE WORLD IS too small ... for both Hitler and God Nazis have now announced their plan for enforcing their pagan religion all over the world ... by which the Holy Bible and the Cross of Mercy would be displaced by Mein Kampf and the swastika. FDR, January 6, 1942, State of Union. THOSE FORCES HATE democracy and Christianity They oppose democracy because it is Christian. They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy. FDR, November 1, 1940, Brooklyn, New York. I SAW SEVASTOPOL and Yalta! And I know that there is not room enough on earth for both German militarism and Christian decency. FDR, March 1, 1945, on Yalta Conference. THIS GREAT WAR effort ... shall not be imperiled by the handful of noisy traitors betrayers of America betrayers of Christianity itself. FDR, April 28, 1942, Fireside Chat. WE GUARD AGAINST the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within. FDR, Oct. 28, 1940, Madison Square Garden, New York. I KNEW THAT someday Russia would return to religion for the simple reason that four or five thousand years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of the many abortive attempts to exile God. FDR, February 10, 1940, American Youth Congress. AN ORDERING OF society which relegates religion to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such an ordering and retains its ancient faith. FDR, January 4, 1939. I DOUBT IF there is any problem in the world that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount ... in conformity with the teaching of Him Who is the Way, the Light and the Truth. FDR, October 1, 1938, New Orleans Eucharistic Congress. WE WILL CELEBRATE this Christmas Day in our traditional American way ... because the teachings of Christ are fundamental in our lives; and because we want our youngest generation ... knowing ... the story of the coming of the immortal Prince of Peace. FDR, December 24, 1944. Unless we follow the path of our founders an the path being laid out for our future by the Oklahoma Department of Education's work to re-introduce Biblical education into the schools of Oklahoma, our nation will never regain the culture spoken of by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Be sure to review the many elements of last Wednesday’s meeting below. God bless! Thank you all for being a part of the preservation of truth in our Oklahoma culture! Send this newsletter to a friend here. OUR LAST MEETING of 2024 . . . A MULTITUDE OF TALENT ARIA Watch the presentation here. BRAD STINE Watch Brad perform here. SPOTLIGHT CAROLERS Watch the presentation here. BOB LINN Watch Bob play Silent Night here. RICKEY DICKSON Watch Rickey sing Mary Did You Know? here. ELIZABETH FISCHBORN Watch her sing The Lord's Prayer here. QUICK PEEK AT 2025 January 15, 2025 OUR FOUNDATION BANKS AT QUAIL CREEK BANK A few of our board members at Quail Creek Bank From left to right: Joseph Palmer, Alan Loeffler, Suzanne Reynolds, Lucia O'Connor, Bob Linn, and Gaylene Stupic. OCPAC FOUNDATION is a 501 (c) (3). Gifts are tax-deductible. I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. OCPAC | P.O. 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