America's Christian Heritage

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Example #22 of America's Christian Heritage

“Even in the fundamental law of the Province of Rhode Island, best known for the religious dissension of its founder Roger Williams, “Christian purpose is expressly stated and a particular form of Christianity (Protestantism) was required as a qualification for office”

Issac A. Cornelison, The Relation of Religion to Civil Government in the United States of America: A State Without a Church, But Not Without a Religion (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons,1895)

 

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Christian purpose is expressly stated and a particular form of Christianity (Protestantism) was required as a qualification for office”

In Dingland Catholics would be persecuted as if they were atheists in all fifty states but Protestant Christianity would not be the national religion (at least on paper)


Well at least a lot of alter boys Would not have been sexually abused in Dingland

 

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Example #23 of America's Christian Heritage

Samuel Adams (1722-1803),
“The Father of the American Revolution”
Instigated the Boston Tea Party
Signed the Declaration of Independence

In his work The Rights of the Colonists circulated in 1772 Adams wrote, “The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty . . . The rights of the colonists as Christians . . . may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament”

Cited by William J. Federer, Amerca’s God and County Encyclopedia of Quotations,(Amerisearch, Inc., St. Louis, Mo, 2000), page 22

 

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Eighteenth-century tribal governments across what’s now the US had a wide variety of government models, from the “relatively complex to simple governments, and from nearly autocratic to highly democratic governments.” The governments of eastern North America that the Founders were most familiar with were confederacies of tribal nations, including the powerful Iroquois Confederacy in upstate New York. The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership, guarded certain personal freedoms including freedom of religion, and included somewhat democratic policies for referendums, vetoes and recalls. (Most also gave women a large role in government, something that wouldn’t make its way into the US Constitution for more than a century.)

Miller notes that Benjamin Franklin was closely involved in negotiating and printing treaties with Native nations including the Iroquois Confederacy, and studied their systems of governance.

 

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Example #24 of America's Christian Heritage

In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin wrote:

 

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John Adams suggested that those drafting the Constitution should study the governments of “the ancient Germans and modern Indians,” which he believed divided power among the three branches of executive, judicial and legislative governance. In particular, he cited the Mohawks, who he argued enjoyed “complete individual independence,” while tribal leaders brought major decisions like declarations of war to “a national assembly.”

 

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Example #25 of America's Christian Heritage

In a pamphlet entitled Information to Those Who Would Remove to America written to Europeans who were considering the move to America Benjamin Franklin wrote:

 

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In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin wrote:

That is not Christian heritage Saint Ding

That is our Deism Heritage! and or our Freemasonry Heritage.

We could call it our Enlightenment Heritage! Our Rational Religion Heritage!

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https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/pluralism/files/enlightenment_and_revolution_0.pdf#:~:text=Both the emotionalism of revivalist religion and the,shared a common commitment to freedom of religion.
The Enlightenment in America, more moderate than in Europe, influenced both religious and political thought throughout the colonies. Many would argue that its approach to religious tolerance rose to prominence in America in large part because no single religious group could garner the necessary votes to impose themselves upon the fledgling republic. Leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were considered paragons of Enlightenment thought, and the freedom-loving religious rationalism of their ideas helped to lay the foundations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. •¥¥¥•

 

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Cited by William J. Federer

Nothing fails like prayer..

Though the famous faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were shrouded by the fog and low-lying clouds, the sounds of praise and prayer came through clearly in the crowded room overlooking the mountain. It was as if God had descended upon the mountain, covering the top half in smoke, while the people below confessed the nation’s sinful independence from Him.

Author and speaker William Federer emceed the two-hour prayer meeting as hundreds lifted up their prayers, seeking to do as this year’s NDP theme called for: “America, Honor God.” The theme is based on the Biblical scripture 1 Samuel 2:30 “Those who honor me, I will honor.” It is a call to the nation to seek God’s face and ask for his protection and blessings over our nation.​

 

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Example #26 of America's Christian Heritage

John Witherspoon (1723-1794)
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Minister
President of Princeton College (formerly the College of New Jersey)

Stated on May 17, 1776:

Cited by William J. Federer, America's God and County Encyclopedia of Quotations,(Amerisearch, Inc., St. Louis, Mo, 2000), page 704

 

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Nothing fails like prayer..

 

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Example #27 of America's Christian Heritage

On June 14, 1783, at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, General George Washington sent a farewell letter to all thirteen Governors of the newly freed states in which he stated:

Cited by William J. Federer, America's God and County Encyclopedia of Quotations,(Amerisearch, Inc., St. Louis, Mo, 2000), page 646

 

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Thomas Jefferson also studied Native systems of government, expressing admiration for them, despite incorrectly characterizing them as having “no law.” In a letter written after the completion of the first draft of the Constitution, he wrote that “the only condition on earth to be compared with ours is that of the Indians, where they still have less law than we. The Europeans are governments of kites over pidgeons."

 

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In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin wrote:

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Ben Franklin.

 

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Example #28 of America's Christian Heritage

In an interesting letter to his mother in April of 1738, Benjamin Franklin stated that the Freemasons "have no principles or practices that are inconsistent with religion and good manners."

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Fighting Words

The religious right is gaining enormous power in the United States, thanks to a well-organized, media-savvy movement with powerful friends in high places. Ye...

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Robin Morgan has assembled a lively, accessible, eye-opening primer and reference tool, a “verbal karate” guide, revealing what the Framers and many other leading Americans really believed — in their own words — rescuing the Founders from images of dusty, pompous old men in powdered wigs, and resurrecting them as the revolutionaries they truly were: a hodgepodge of freethinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, and Freemasons — and they were radicals as well.

<em>Fighting Words</em>

Robin Morgan talked about her book, [Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right], published by Nation Books. In her book Ms. Morgan, a poet, novelist and political activist, draws upon quotations from the Founding Fathers in her "toolkit." She argued that the United States was...

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Example #28 of America's Christian Heritage

In an interesting letter to his mother in April of 1738, Benjamin Franklin stated that the Freemasons "have no principles or practices that are inconsistent with religion and good manners.D

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Yes, Saint Ding, Freemasonry was a much more important contribution to the American Revolution than Catholicism and all Cross of Christ worshippers for 1700 years combined for sure.

 

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Example #29 of America's Christian Heritage

No atheist may be made a Freemason.

PS Review of Freemasonry

www.freemasons-freemasonry.com

 

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Example #29 of America's Christian Heritage

No atheist may be made a Freemason.

PS Review of Freemasonry

www.freemasons-freemasonry.com

No Freemason could be made a Cross of Christ worshiper: idolater.

 

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Example #30 of America's Christian Heritage

Many of the founding fathers were Freemasons. Some of the more notable founding fathers to also be masons are: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Chief Justice John Marshall. All together it is believed that about nine of the fifty-six men (16%) that signed the Declaration of Independence were masons, and about thirteen of the thirty-nine (33%) that signed the US Constitutions were also masons.

Founding Fathers

Many of the founding fathers of America were Freemasons looking to solidify the separation from England and secure Religious Freedom and Democracy.

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