After years of research, artist Jon McNaughton has created a painting that depicts Jesus Christ at the center of a gathering of many of America’s pivotal historical figures….
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” [1]
The United States of America was founded on the fundamental principle of freedom of religion. America’s Founding Fathers believed that religious freedom and a strong democratic system were inseparable. Our first president, George Washington, said that “of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” The founder of the state of Pennsylvania, William Penn declared, “if we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.” The French writer, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote in the early part of the nineteenth century that, “Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to conceive of one without the other.” The founders saw the idea of religious freedom as coming from God, Himself. As the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty stated, “its authors were well aware that Almighty God had created the mind free, that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens or by civil incapacitation’s are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion.” [2]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. [3]
God will always be part of this Country…
2. Religious Freedom and Democracy
3. First Ammendment to the United States of America
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