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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Lash Article on Incorporating the Establishment Clause, Blasphemy & Religion Left to the States

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For those who wish to see an originalist case for incorporating the Establishment Clause to apply to state and local governments, see Profe...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

DAVID UPHAM on Everson/The Religion Clause

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Professor David Upham makes the case for overturning Everson at the Law & Liberty site here . In this piece he is more clear on how he ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

NY Mag: "AOC Thinks Concentrated Wealth Is Incompatible With Democracy. So Did Our Founders."

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You can read the link here . It relies mainly on Thomas Jefferson and James Harrington to represent "our Founders." Historian Kevi...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Ben Franklin Didn't Think Ben Hur Needed Jesus

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This post features another one of those letters that contain multiple points about one of America's founders' religious beliefs. Be...

From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 March 1816

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Over the years, we've quoted from various letters of America's founders to prove a point about which they believed. Some letters tho...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Kidd on GW's Faith

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From this post in 2017, Thomas Kidd examines " Ron Chernow’s extraordinary 2010   biography of Washington " and makes some observ...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

What Was Unique About the American Founding and Religion

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The American founding had a number of novel things to it. Though it wasn't entirely novel. For instance, the American Revolution wasn...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Jefferson's Koran

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So Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) will be sworn in using Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Koran. There is a myth going around that J...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Waligore on Unitarians

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Dr. Joseph Waligore is working on a new book that will tackle, among other things, some of the unitarians who influenced the American foun...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Lester Kinsolving, RIP

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Here at American Creation we spend a lot of time examining religious boxes. How do they define and how ought a particular historical figur...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

Frazer on Locke v. Reformed Resisters as a Source

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Gregg Frazer who has a new book out has been graciously participating in the comments at American Creation. I found this comment the most...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

St. George Tucker and the Theology of the Common Law

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Legendary scholar Walter Berns had the following to say about the notion that "Christianity" was part of the "common law....
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Frazer's New Book Review at Christianity Today

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Check it out here . A taste: This book is a righteous tribute to Loyalist pastors, who took up their cause with integrity, erudition, and...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Q&A with Christopher Grasso, author of Skepticism and American Faith: ...

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Check it out at The Junto here . A taste: Christopher Grasso  earned his PhD from Yale in 1992, taught at St. Olaf College, and came to W...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

On Gregg Frazer's New Book

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Check the story out here . As it reads: New from the University Press of Kansas:  God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's C...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Postscript

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A subtitle to this post is "the power of missing quotation marks." You can view the last of my series on St. George Tucker here ....
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part V

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See  parts I ,  II ,  III ,  and IV . This is the fifth and final part of the series and I hope you read my analysis at the end, because...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part IV

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See  parts I ,  II , and III .  Paragraph breaks added for clarity . The church establishment in England is one of the mildest sort. Bu...