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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... land, the entire enterprise represented an act of faith. By the end of the first winter, half the party of some one hundred men, women, and children was dead. Starvation was commonplace, disease rampant. The Pilgrims and Indians ...
... lands without remuneration, a policy Williams vigorously opposed. In addition, he decried the civil employment of oaths in court proceedings (“so help me God”) and questioned the state's right both to enforce religious uniformity and to ...
... land. Found guilty on both civil and religious grounds, Williams was banished from Massachusetts. This punishment was imposed in January, at the very heart of winter. It could have proved a death sentence. Alone in the wilderness ...
... land unto all the inhabitants thereof”), Williams's bell pealed forth to all the promise of religious and civil liberty. In the forge of his spiritual imagination, the American Creed had begun to take shape. 3 THE LIBERTY BELL Let the ...
... land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” By so doing, they pledged themselves to as expansive a mission as any people ... lands unto all the inhabitants thereof: and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every.
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 | |