If the Founders believed in God, what did they believe about Jesus Christ?
Regarding the letters insisting that we are losing touch with the fundamental Christian principles of our Founding Fathers: The United States was not> founded on Christian principles. Our country was ...
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When he talks about the role of religion in the founding of the United States, historian Gregg Frazer does not attract eager audiences. “Neither side really wants to hear what I say,” says Frazer, a ...
Conservative evangelicals, on the other hand, insist that the founders of the republic were all pious Christians. In fact, few of the men who led the revolution or drafted the constitution could be ...
Thomas Jefferson is described as a deist who believed in a God detached from mankind. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence contradicts this assertion insofar as he depicts therein a belief in a ...
Atheism in America requires a sense of humor, however black, a thick skin, or an active embrace of outsider status; lacking these defenses, you risk being unnerved by the onslaught of religiosity and ...
Sometimes recognizing a problem requires finding the right words to name it. Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton have coined a phrase that describes perfectly the dominant American religion: ...
In the previous article, I considered Rousseau's political radicalism, at some speed. I want to offer a summarizing reflection on that theme, before moving on to his religious thought. Political ...