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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... values, often persuasive in their critique but misguided in their understanding of the American way and of American history. Secularists on the left are equally wrongheaded. If ours is explicitly not a Christian nation, it is ...
... value-free materialism and the felt imposition of this “decadence” on world society. To the extent that this characterization in fact represents today's America, we have lost ... values, this pyramid is uncapped, the foundation (crafted by.
A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer Forrest Church. religious values, this pyramid is uncapped, the foundation (crafted by human arts) completed transcendentally by a luminous, all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. On July 4, 1776 ...
... value and may rightly earn the world's scorn. Yet, when we rise to the challenge, we answer that scorn with a stronger love. We bear witness to a treasured set of principles that offer to a divided world the saving vision of our ...
... values will be remembered. On the Fourth of July we celebrate the Declaration of Independence. On the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday we lift up a martyr's dream that one day its promise might be fulfilled. And on Thanksgiving—the ...
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 | |