The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... opinions on religion, therefore, have an intrinsic interest which transcends the parochial subject of state-church relations, and they constitute a fund of knowledge and information on which a modern reader can draw as he or she ...
... opinions of the Founders, insofar as I could ascertain them. Those who might object that this policy skews the tenor of the volume toward secularism will find that it cuts both ways. Benjamin Franklin's earliest foray into the realm of ...
... opinions of the ordinary people who composed this population are accessible in any form is, it should be observed, a subject that historians have vigor- ously debated in recent decades. The present volume, to summarize, is a work of ...
... the most influential preacher in the early American republic of Universalism, which promised salvation to all, al- though the wicked must first be punished after death. ANB. 5 Adams's meaning is that in his opinion James I,. Animals 19.
... opinion. . . . Benjamin Rush to Richard Peters, November 28, 1807. Butterfield, Letters of Rush, 2:957. Atheism. #. Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices ...