America's Christian Heritage

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NotfooledbyW 240706 Vacfyz: Christianity did not “reign” over one single individual mind according to the American civil religion that was informally created by the US Constitution. American “Civil Religion” is the heart and soul of the American experience,

Christianity in America is equal in stature and influence with every other law abiding matter of conscience that has been save will be devised by humankind.
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Saint_Ding has in fact has succumbed to the white Christian nationalist lie that Christianity reigns without obstacle over the individual minds of every true and law abiding US citizen.

All adult converts to Christianity in the United States of America, do so voluntarily with no pressure for any government. At least ideally.

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Amanda Porterfield is a professor of religion at Florida State University. Her most recent book is “Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation.”

If we are talking about 13 colonies belonging to the British Empire, whose king presided over an imperial church, then yes, British citizens residing in those colonies lived under Christian rule.

Those colonies were founded as outposts of a Christian nation. With American independence, however, the British monarchy lost control over its American subjects. Champions of American liberty then celebrated their religious as well as political independence.

In the popular pamphlet some historians credit with overcoming American hesitance about severing ties with Britain, “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine cheered freedom from the “degradation and lessening of ourselves” under British rule, proclaiming “monarchy in every instance” to be “the Popery of government.”

Hostile to the political theology of both the Catholic Church and Protestant kings, Paine celebrated a vision for America that reflected the democratic god of nature and reason.



Editor’s Note: Mark Edwards teaches U.S. history and politics at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. He is the author of “The Right of the Protestant Left: God’s Totalitarianism.”

“A culture warrior as well as priest and public intellectual, Neuhaus demonstrated with more clarity than any “village atheist” that the idea of Christian America was a fiction in search of believers Mark Edwards, Special to CNN Sat July 4, 2015

 

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Seems like some people want to make Christian heritage be something more than just Christian heritage.

 

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Seems like some people want to make Christian heritage be something more than just Christian heritage.

Example #1:
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Example #2:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins. It is currently in its fifth edition.
Originally published: 1969
Author: American Heritage Publishing Company
Original language: English

Example #3:
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as Heritage, is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia
Founders: Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich
President: Kevin Roberts
Tax deductibility code: 501(c)(3)
Founded: February 16, 1973

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her·it·age
noun

1. 1.
   property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance.
   "they had stolen his grandfather's heritage"

 

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Example #1:
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Example #2:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins. It is currently in its fifth edition.
Originally published: 1969
Author: American Heritage Publishing Company
Original language: English

Example #3:
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as Heritage, is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia
Founders: Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich
President: Kevin Roberts
Tax deductibility code: 501(c)(3)
Founded: February 16, 1973

Note:
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more

her·it·age
noun

1. 1.
   property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance.
   "they had stolen his grandfather's heritage"

I'm not trying to make it more than it is. America's Christian heritage is self evident and doesn't need to be anything more than it is. It is what it is. I am merely acknowledging it.