08.30.08

Declaration of Independence

Posted in at 1:40 pm by Stephanie

Read it.

Notice that there are only three references to “God”

  1. Paragraph 1: “Nature’s God”
  2. Paragraph 2: “Creator”
  3. Last Paragraph: “divine Providence”

People who insist on claiming that the US was founded as a Christian country would do well to remember that the Puritans left England in order to escape religious persecution and that the Declaration of Independence does not mention the Christ or allude to a “Christian” God.

JFK reading the Declaration of Independence:

08.23.08

History in the Making

Posted in at 12:43 am by Stephanie