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(3.88) | Ingen/inga | "From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence--especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws allowing for conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief enter debates about religious liberty. Still, today every one of the fifty states has God written into its constitution, with eight requiring a belief in God for holding public office. God is everywhere in American public life: on our currency, in the Pledge of Allegiance, and in the national motto. R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick explore both God's omnipresence and the dramatic rise in nonbelievers that has led to an "atheist awakening" intent on holding the country to its secular principles"--… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. The matter of "faith" has been in the papers again lately. President Eisenhower . . . has come out for prayer and has emphasized that more Americans are motivated (as they surely are) by religious faith. The Herald Tribune headed the story "President says prayer is part of democracy." The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition of democratic life. This is just wrong. A President should pray whenever and wherever he feels like it . . . but I don't think a President should advertise prayer. That is a different thing. Democracy, if I understand it at all, is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half a dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy, the tranquility would be it's proof . . . I hope that Belief is never made to appear mandatory . . . I hope America will never become an uncomfortable place for the unbeliever, as it could easily become if prayer were made one of the requirements of the accredited citizen.
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. To the ears of many Americans, the word "atheist" has a hard, unpleasant ring to it. (Prologue) By the end of the seventeenth century, Europe had had its fill of the religious wars that began in 1517 with Martin Luther's protest against what he viewed as corruption within the Catholic Church. | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. A national monument to [Thomas Paine's] memory is way overdue, one perhaps inscribed with the words he penned in 1775 that were not controversial to our revolutionary forebears and should not be controversial now: "When we yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." (Klicka för att visa. Varning: Kan innehålla spoilers.) | |
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