Why was the sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada significant to America? Had Spain succeeded in their attempts to conquer England, there may have been: no Anglican England; no Puritans wanting to "purify" it; no Pilgrim separatists fleeing it; no New England colonies being settled, and, quite possibly, no United States of America.
The President of the United Nations' General Assembly, 13th Session, was Lebanese diplomat Charles Habib Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt and others write the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Malik stated in 1958: "Whatever these honored men think, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."
Later, Astronaut James Irwin became an evangelical minister. Of his experience of walking on the moon, he stated: "I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before ... Being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact upon my life. Before I entered space with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, I was ... a silent Christian, but I feel the Lord sent me to the moon so I could return to the earth and share His Son, Jesus Christ." He added: “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.”
Franklin Roosevelt addressed Delegates of the American Youth Congress, February 10, 1940: "Some of you are communists ... You have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the Government and the Constitution of this Nation."
