Religion Quotes by Steven K. Green

“Jefferson then distilled and enunciated these “essentials” in several personal works he shared with friends, his “Syllabus,” and two extracts from the Bible: “The…

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“Cotton’s code was never enacted, but in 1641 the General Court adopted the Body of Liberties, written by lawyer and pastor Nathaniel Ward, the…

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“Religious imagery and symbolism were the common idioms that all speakers employed when making rhetorical points. Rather than indicating a level of personal piety,…

— Steven K. Green

“Whether it was celebrated or lamented, the Constitution was universally seen as a secular document establishing a civil frame of government. In essence, few…

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“The myth of America’s religious founding thus provided an explanation for those who needed to sanctify the past before they could go forward with…

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“The haphazard unfolding of religious toleration described above occurred chiefly by default (and in New York, to enhance a commercial environment), not to promote…

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“Because Americans lack a common ethnicity or extensive heritage, our founding myth is more important than it is for most other peoples. Unlike other…

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“In both instances of Franklin and Jefferson, revisionist writers have emphasized those aspects of their beliefs that are consistent with Christian faith, while discounting…

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“At the risk of oversimplification, the unifying theme of the Hebrew scripture is one of forging a national identity connected to God through a…

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“All in all, Christian nation proponents commit several errors in their claims about the religious beliefs of the Founders. Their claims isolate the religious…

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“With religious nonconformists outnumbering Anglicans after 1700, and economic motives eclipsing any sense of a religious mission, the colony adopted a moderate religious stance…

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“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

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“As noted, late in their deliberations the drafters of the Constitution included a clause prohibiting religious tests or prerequisites for holding any federal office.”

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“while one can debate whether a particular Founder was religiously devout, there is little question that many regularly attended Christian worship and participated in…

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“The “large majority of ministers who published sermons during the Revolutionary era justified the war effort by a rationale that was more political than…

— Steven K. Green