Christian worship Quote by Steven K. Green

““while one can debate whether a particular Founder was religiously devout, there is little question that many regularly attended Christian worship and participated in the public celebrations of religion. The occasional portrayal of the Founders as religion-despising deists is as inaccurate as the claim that they were all born-again Christians.””

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“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,…

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“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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