[B4Ranch]

In 1782, during the waning days of the American Revolution, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken obtained the authorization of Congress to print a rather patriotic Bible.

(snip)

This endorsement by the secular of the spiritual would have been a flagrant violation of the church/state divide — but it was nine years before that concept would be codified and ratified in the First Amendment. So Aitken printed 10,000 copies of his pocket-size Scripture, with the congressional plug on the very first page (Congress “recommend[s] this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.”)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091603463.html

[Copernicus]

Wow, new to me!

Thanks!

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