Very interesting article that points out matters of history I was not aware of and will have to investigate further. Thanks for posting.
“Constantine is said to have seen a sign in the sky — according to some, the cross; ...”
By this sign, you shall conquer.
Without the cross, the teaparty will conquer little. The modern-day James Madisons (without Christ) are no match for the secularism and culture of death that they face.
Interesting article. Nice post. Thanks!
There are two versions about Constantine, which both seem to go back to Constantine himself--either he saw a vision in the sky or he had a dream before the battle.
A very thought provoking article.
“Christian communities have played an enormously influential role in shaping American history since the colonial period, precisely because America was never a part of political Christendom.”
You would never know it here. Apparently National Review hasn’t made a review of the religious section of FR. The way disproportionate volume of anti-Protestant threads here might change their mind. One would gather that the Papists here would love to change America’s long standing opposition to Constantinian Christianity, or, as the lead article puts it, “political Christendom.”
“For while there were established churches in the colonies at the time of the Revolution, those establishments sat uneasily with various dissident Protestant groups (often Baptists of one sort or another), and even more uneasily with the colonies’ minuscule Catholic population.”
Yes, and thank God, “those establishments,” namely the Constantinian Papacy, STILL sit uneasily with us dissident Protestants. “Minuscule Catholic population:” it was indeed miniscule in the days of the colonies, Maryland was about the only state that had any sizable population of Papists. But you’d never know it here, were National Review to make a review of the religious section of FR, he would see that the Papists have about taking it over, hardly miniscule, they run wild and rough shod here.
“Western Christianity has now largely disentangled itself from the Constantinian arrangement on church-and-state.”
Yes, and I pray God it stays that way.