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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... offering each the same protections, securing freedom of and from religion. Equally important, it protects freedom from itself, tempering excesses of individual license by postulating a higher moral code. In America, faith and freedom ...
... offered a chastening reminder that freedom alone is a mixed blessing. Uninformed by morality, freedom is, at best, a neutral value and not a virtue. If there is little “American” about the so-called theocracy Winthrop envisioned and ...
... or her conscience in all private matters, especially with respect to religion. Williams offered two reasons for this mandate, one positive and one negative. Religion cannot be authentic without liberty, and those who enforce.
... offered a temporal crown, he would have exercised civil authority or allowed such an authority oversight in spiritual matters? Williams thought not, concluding it must therefore “lamentably be against the testimony of Christ Jesus for ...
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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 | |