American+Gospel

=THE AMERICAN GOSPEL =

"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being"  -William O. Douglas from Zorach v. Clauson (1952)

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 * "The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world."
 * -Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Painting by Norman Rockwell) **

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__**PAT ROBERTSON: POPULAR TELEVANGELIST** __

 * “The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.” - Pat Robertson**


 * "There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore." -Pat Robertson**


 * "Ladies and Gentleman we have to recognize that Islam is not a religion. It is a world wide political movement meant on dominating the world. And it is meant to subjugate people under Islamic law." -Pat Robertson**

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"Their immediate posterity, the generation next to the earliest emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have sufficed to clear it up." -Nathaniel Hawthorne, //The Scarlet Letter//

"In America, religion is perhaps less powerful that it has been at certain periods in the history of certain peoples' but its influence is more lasting. It restricts itself to its own resources, but of these none can deprive it: its circle is limited to certain principles, but those principles are entirely its own and under it undisputed control." -De Tocqueville (362)   ** 

** American Gospel Reflection The Great Big Sperit **

American Decadence

 * The Melting Pot

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