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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... celebrate it. “America,” Myrdal concludes, “is continuously struggling for its soul.” Pointing to the ongoing battle for civil rights, he recognised the tension between American ideals and their incomplete fulfillment. Yet, unlike much ...
... celebrate both what sets us apart (specific doctrinal convictions) and what holds us together (a common faith). Some Americans—fundamentalists of the right and left— struggle more than the average citizen with such ambiguity ...
... celebrating the 250th anniversary of Norwich, Connecticut, in 1909. “Well, if you are going to be exact, they came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, and not the freedom of anybody else's religion.” It is certainly ...
... celebrate both of these legacies on Thanksgiving. For most Americans the history we remember is associated with holidays. In pageants and ceremonial addresses our past is brought alive again. The teaching of our history begins here, in ...
... celebrate the Declaration of Independence. On the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday we lift up a martyr's dream that ... celebration of our history must be instructed by fact as well as legend. Though they represent the most traveled ...
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 | |