Kamis, 07 April 2016

Praise God and Liberty: Religion and the Founding of the United States

Devout believers and deistic doubters formed an unlikely alliance that helped win the Revolution and forge the new American nation. On New Year’s Day, 1802, the Baptist evangelist John Leland showed up at the White House with a gift for President Thomas Jefferson: a block of cheese, 4 feet wide and 15 inches thick, that …

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