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Religion and Law media type="file" key="05 God Bless The U.S.A..m4a"(God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood)

"A people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical"- __The Scarlet Letter__





After the puritanical age, when the founding fathers were devloping the Constitution, they talked about the importance of separating "church and state".



"It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it were by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support."-George Washington

Does that value still hold true today?

34 of past 42 presidents have been Episcopalian, Presbeteryian, Methodist, Baptist or Unitarian- all strands of Christianity. There has been 1 Catholic President, 0 Jewish, 0 Muslim, 0 Buddhist, 0 Hindu, and 0 of thousands of other religions.



"And let me tell you, these past two years, they have deepened my faith. The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray. Abe Lincoln said, as many of you know, 'I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.'" -President Obama

"The great strength of America's the fact that America is full of God-fearing and decent soles." -George Bush



Inclusive Religion in __Grapes of Wrath__

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"Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'"-__Grapes of Wrath__ by John Steinbeck

"Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of."-__Grapes of Wrath__ by John Steinbeck Instead of focusing on just one religion and having everyone conform to one viewpoint we should learn to.

My Reflection on Religion in America

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