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Is The United States a Christian Nation?
In a recent post explaining my acceptance of some libertarian ideas, I made the passing reference to the fact that America is, and has been a Christian Nation. However, this fact is not accepted by everyone, especially atheists. Their arguments are typified by the first comment I received on this post: While some of the [...]
Faith and Freedom
We’ve been talking– or writing– a lot about the founding of our nation, both here and in comments on other blogs. What I’ve struggled the hardest to do is to try to explain in clear language why it is important that we know what we were founded upon and just what kind of nation we [...]
Is There a Benefit to Equality in Education?
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core to the premise that the school is a proper place to teach right and wrong is the concept that the children belong to the state, not to the parents. What’s [...]
We Hold These Truths: James Madison
Any in depth look into the Freedom of Religion in the U.S. Constitution must, at some point, take up the subject of James Madison. He is the writer of the current text, and was very influential in the founding. It is through his documents that those looking for the Founder’s mind go to as they [...]
Review: American Political Theology
American Political Theology‘s main purpose, as stated in the conclusion, is “not only to examine emotion-charged issues dispassionately and objectively, but also to provide a framework for analyzing political and theological relationships” (180). It seeks to accomplish this goal through the major works of different time periods, including present thought. The first period covered is [...]
We Hold These Truths: Ratifying Convention’s Suggestions
One of the common arguments against the fact that America was a Christian nation is that the Federal Constitution has no reference to the Creator in it. There’s nothing there to remark about any religion, and, in fact, it starts out by declaring that “We the People” have the rights to create this Constitution, not [...]
We Hold These Truths: The Problem With Democracies
In order to understand why our government is set up in the way that it is, the logic behind it and why it has gone as long as it has one has to start with defeating the common notion that we are a Democracy. America is Not a Democracy America was founded as a Constitutional [...]
We Hold These Truths: If We’re Not a Christian Nation…
What is with all the public references to Christian religion? In reality, those that would argue against the United States being a Christian nation would have a hard time proving it to anyone on the outside. From the outside, foreigners believe that we have strange, puritanical beliefs compared to the “free” Western societies. But, one [...]
We Hold These Truths: Common Law, the 10 Commandments, and the Constitution
One of the factors in determining the roots of our current law system necessitates tracing back the roots of our rights. To find those roots, we need to look at the documents and concepts available to the founders as they prepared them. On October 14, 1774, the Constitutional Congress of the United States issued its [...]
We Hold These Truths: Jefferson’s Creator
One of the arguments that Christians like to try to use is that the acknowledgement of the Creator is in the Constitution. It isn’t. It is in the Declaration of Independence– and regardless of its location it has a lot to tell us about what the founders of this country believed and the framework from [...]
We Hold These Truths: George Washington
Are we, or are we not a Christian nation? It seems to be a question more people are asking as time passes and Christianity is challenged in America. I’ve had this discussion on this blog in comments, and so I thought we could take some time to delve into this question and see if we can [...]
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