Catholics and Protestants debate the silverware at the feast. Jesus is the reason for the Season, God loves and gives us free will, and the inalienable rights we are provided as Americans are from Him.
Protestants be all “Trust in the plan!” Catholics be like “Let’s make this happen! God wills it!” I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. We need prayer all around.
You might be interested in Robert Riley’s book “America on Trial: Defense of the Founding.” He also gave a talk on the book at this link https://vimeo.com/440075643
“Riley traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American Founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock.”
There's an excellent book called "Founding Faith" that details the particular beliefs motivating many of the founders and gives a brief history of religion in our country. For example, catholicsm was illegal in some of the colonies which made a huge impression on the youthful James Madison (whose father was a lay clergyman in a calvinist church).
The important point is they were believing Christians of different stripes, not "deists"; and despite Obama's lies the country was always a Christian nation.
Catholics and Protestants debate the silverware at the feast. Jesus is the reason for the Season, God loves and gives us free will, and the inalienable rights we are provided as Americans are from Him.
Protestants be all “Trust in the plan!” Catholics be like “Let’s make this happen! God wills it!” I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ. We need prayer all around.
the founding principles can be best described as peak enlightenment/proto-libertarian
there are no values enshrined in the founding that are exclusively or overwhelmingly Catholic or Protestant
The founders were overwhelmingly protestant and I say it as a Catholic. This man was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton
We didn't have a Catholic president until Kennedy and haven't had one since out of 45 presidents.
You might be interested in Robert Riley’s book “America on Trial: Defense of the Founding.” He also gave a talk on the book at this link https://vimeo.com/440075643
“Riley traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American Founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock.”
Neither. The founders were non-denominational deists.
There's an excellent book called "Founding Faith" that details the particular beliefs motivating many of the founders and gives a brief history of religion in our country. For example, catholicsm was illegal in some of the colonies which made a huge impression on the youthful James Madison (whose father was a lay clergyman in a calvinist church). The important point is they were believing Christians of different stripes, not "deists"; and despite Obama's lies the country was always a Christian nation.
I vote Independent Born Again Christian Nation.
I vote Independent Born Again Christian Nation.