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Butler, Jon, et al. Religion in American Life: A Short History (2011) Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience (1992) Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free
Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the separation of church and state and would not support the notion that they were trying to found a Christian nation. [170] [171] [172] In Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, a Supreme Court decision in 1892, Justice David Josiah Brewer wrote that America was "a ...
The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 44%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 22%) and other Christian denominations such as Latter Day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses (about 13 million in total; 4%). [2]
Malone University hosts historian panel to discuss Christianity's influence on the nation's Founders
They founded powerful advocacy organizations like the American Economic Association and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to, in the words of one reformer, “bring to pass here a kingdom ...
Many sources list him as Methodist; in general, however, it is agreed that he held himself to be a Christian, but of no specific church. [68] In his diary entry for May 17, 1890, he states: "Writing a few words for Mohonk Negro Conference, I find myself using the word Christian. I am not a subscriber to any creed. I belong to no church.
Christian nation? Jesus said “Do not bear false witness.” Yet people who claim to be followers of Jesus routinely bear false witness when they say America was founded as a Christian nation.
Richard Allen, African-American bishop, founder of the Free African Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church [90] Crispus Attucks, believed to be of Native American and African descent, was the first of five persons killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770, and thus the first to die in the American Revolution. [91]