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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... 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.
... human arts) completed transcendentally by a luminous, all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. On July 4, 1776, immediately after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Congress entrusted Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson ...
... humanity to be by nature sinful—the word liberty, as a human rather than a divine attribute, was interchangeable with the word license. Untethered to a directing authority, liberty would lead to immoral behavior and, in turn, undermine ...
... humanity [may] be maintained among the chief opposers and dissenters.” This proposition undergirds Williams's third argument in favor of religious liberty: It is in the best interest of both church and state for the two to remain ...
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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 | |