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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... reli- gious " side wants less separation of church and state , and the " secularists " want more . Straightforward . And from these baseline assumptions flow many others . For starters , many conservatives believe that if they can show ...
... reli- gion and less separation of church and state . In fact , separation of church and state would not exist if not for the efforts of eighteenth- century evangelicals . • The American Revolution was fought solely over economic and ...
... reli- gion and government . We then learn more about their religious lives in subsequent chapters and , finally , assess where they ended up spiritually at the close of their lives . Though whole books can be ( and have been ) written ...
... reli- gion of the Roman Empire , Western Christian leaders had believed that , thanks to Adam's bite of the apple , man was so inherently depraved , a strong one - two punch of church and state working together would be required to tame ...
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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 |
207 | 243 |
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