Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in AmericaThe culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet.com editor in chief Steven Waldman. With refreshing objectivity, Waldman narrates the real story of how our nation’s Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith . . . by leaving it alone. |
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... protecting the saints from corrup- tion . Thomas Shepard , the pastor of the church in Cambridge , Massachu- setts , explained that " if we could be so Eagle - eyed , as to discern them now that are hypocrites , we should exclude them ...
... protection to Quakers and most other minorities but ran into troubles that will be de- scribed in the next chapter . And Maryland and New York offer their own cap- tivating , unique , and disheartening lessons , to which we now turn ...
... protected . Stuyvesant re- sponded to this inspiring call for liberty by having the man who delivered it , Tobias Feake , arrested and banished.60 As with most of the colonies , there were occasional breaks in either the re- pression or ...
Contents
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John Adams | 33 |
George Washington | 56 |
The pious infidel | 72 |
Natures God Meets the Supreme Judge | 86 |
James Madison | 93 |
A Diabolical Persecution | 100 |
The Mighty Current of Freedom | 107 |
Forgetting the Powerful Friend | 127 |
The First Amendment Compromise | 141 |
They Were Right | 188 |
Index | 209 |
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