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Still others contend that some or all the American founders were Christian, or that the founding documents were based on Christianity. That's a lot to unpack. Let's start at the top.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t mention Christianity or any specific religion. The Declaration of Independence famously proclaims that people’s rights come from a “Creator” and “Nature’s ...
Christian Nationalists sometimes claim their beliefs are echoed in the Constitution and American law. They claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state ...
Alaska: Big America; Alaska: Dangerous Territory; Alcatraz: Search for the Truth; Alcatraz Escape: The Lost Evidence; Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence; America: The Story of Us; America Unearthed; American Daredevils; American Eats [10] American Eats: History on a Bun; The American Farm; The American Presidency with Bill Clinton; The American ...
Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage This second book in the series premiered in September 2009 at the Washington Visitor Center , hosted by the author and his wife. [ 13 ] The film explores “the role of religion in early [United States of] America and the belief that ‘our Creator’ is the source of our liberty, prosperity, and ...
Since the late 19th century, some right-wing Christians have argued that the United States of America is essentially Christian in origin. They preach American exceptionalism, oppose liberal scholars, and emphasize the Christian identity of many Founding Fathers. Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the ...
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...
The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free; Keller, Rosemary Skinner, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (3 vol 2006)