The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic PrimerWhat makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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... church and state, the body politic does have a soul. Chesterton assumed that the American Creed condemned atheism, since it secures human rights as inalienable gifts from God. The saving irony is that this same creed (as interpreted in.
... [God] has favored our undertaking,” and Novus ordo seclorum: “A new order of the ages [has commenced].” These mottoes are illustrated by a pyramid, bright with the eastern sun rising, dark on its western side, suggesting that the ...
... God.” Jefferson imagined the children of Israel in the wilderness on one side and Saxon chiefs, “whose political principles and form of government we have assumed,” on the other. In each working concept, faith and freedom were joined ...
... GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH, ALL the world was a wilderness. This wilderness was populated first by ferns and then by animals. Hundreds of millions of years later, as a home to aboriginal peoples scattered in pockets around the globe ...
... God sang in the voice of Isaiah. “Now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert ... to give drink to my people, my chosen.” The Puritans thought that God was speaking ...
Contents
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | |
E Pluribus Unum | |
AMERICAS MISSION | |
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL | |
THE FOUR FREEDOMS | |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | |
CONCLUSION | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |