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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 first Christian worship service held in the current United States was a Catholic Mass celebrated in Pensacola, Florida (St. Michael records). [citation needed] The Spanish spread Roman Catholicism through Spanish Florida by way of its mission system; these missions extended into Georgia and the Carolinas.
It soon shortened its name to the National Association of Evangelicals (NEA). There are currently 60 denominations with about 45,000 churches in the organization. The NEA is related fraternally the World Evangelical Fellowship. In 2006, 39 communions and 7 Christian organizations officially launched Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT ...
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.”
A boy scout yawns as he holds a furled U.S. flag at an event in Maine in 1984. Credit - Ernst Haas—Getty Images. W hen speaking recently at an evangelical town hall led by Lance Wallnau, J.D ...
Catholics represent the largest Christian denomination in America with over 68 million members. [34] 85% of these Catholics found their faith to be "somewhat" to "very important" to them. In recent national elections Catholics cast 25 to 27 percent of the ballots. [35] [36]
Cohen, I. Bernard Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison (1995) W.W. Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-03501-8 Dray, Philip Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (2005) Random House, ISBN 1-4000-6032-X