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Is America Christian?
'Hodgepodge of Thoughts about early America'''''''''''''.A short reading of the facts
I was listening to a news program the other night and I heard an alarming statement made by a 'Reverend' who said that America was not founded as a Christian nation. I don't know much about the minister's credentials other than what was flashed across the screen. It seems he was a former employee of the ACLU and was opposed to Christian emblems being placed on government property. He gave the same old song and dance about 'separation of church and state' (gag me) and the need for America to sterilize her government agencies of Christian symbols. I was thinking about this absurdity this morning, and thought I would help set the record straight. America was founded on Biblical principles and has been declared Christian by its institutions of law all the way up to the 1950s. Let me present some facts.
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Fact: In 1931 the U.S. Supreme Court noted that the United States is a Christian nation. In a mid-Atlantic summit with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the darkest hours of World War II, President Roosevelt'who had described the United States as the 'the lasting concord between men and nations, founded on the principles of Christianity''asked the crew of an American warship to join him in a rousing chorus of the hymn 'Onward, Christian Soldiers.' President Woodrow Wilson, in his famous address, 'The Bible and Progress,' delivered in Denver, Colorado, on May 7, 1911, told his audience that, 'America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelation of Holy Scripture.' I might add that President Wilson was a devout Presbyterian.
B2B' Watch Your Mouth!There was a precious time then business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce was the sweet darling of Internet-based ..... Fact: The claim that America has a distinct Christian heritage does not mean that every American is now or ever was a Christian. Moreover, it does not mean that either the Church or the State should force people to profess belief in Christianity or attend religious services. Furthermore, a belief in a Christian heritage for America does not mean that non-Christians, and for that matter, dissenting Christians, cannot ......
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