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Evangelical Minds

Church, State, and the Founding of America

Plus: Studying pagans, humanities vs. religion, and more.

Hunter Baker | posted 9/27/2007 10:50AM

Journal Watch: Faith and the American Founding

Though connoisseurs of the culture war appreciate fresh servings of the religion-versus-science staple, they may have an even greater craving for simplistic ...

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Chaplain Mary Murphy

Posted: October 04, 2007 12:43 PM


Veteransjustice@aol.com first paradigm shift for Veterans Incarcerated with untreated combat documented PTSD - the Veterans Administration most evidentiary example of Hebrews 6:6 - did our Founding Mothers realize how we would openly abuse Women Veterans in the present? The War Widows

Anonymous

Posted: September 29, 2007 4:25 AM

If there was such a quandary about whether this was supposed to be a nation for any or no religion what does article 11 in the treaty with Tripoli mean? It was ratified by the United States senate and signed by president Adams. It states...ver batim: ARTICLE 11. As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Christy Tucker

Posted: September 28, 2007 1:08 AM


I am a Christian but the Bill of Rights gives us the choice of Religion. Also we should keep Religion separate from politics.

Carl T. Fynboe

Posted: September 27, 2007 12:20 PM

For some good reason every article in CT today generated some thought on my part. It is so important for our young people and citizens of the United States to be reminded that our nation was constituted on Judeo-Christian principles. I believe the reason so many people from other nations swarm into our country is our welcoming Christian spirit. At least we do not seem to have much outmigration to other places in the world. I heard a speaker many years ago express the thought that our United States Constitution implies in the First Amendment a commitment to the "separation of Church and State", but that you can never separate God from the affairs of state. The "establishment" clause and the "free exercise thereof" gaurantee a proper balance.

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