Posted on 10/02/2011 7:00:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
"The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. The signal instances of providential goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good." General Orders. Fitzpatrick 11:342. (1778.)
True, the various sects, from the beginning, were known by denomination, but the overall descriptive term was, as it is today, "Christian." Thomas Jefferson wrote with pride about how, in his "little village of Charlottesville,". . . "The court-house is the common temple, one Sunday in the month to each. Here, Episcopalian and Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist, meet together, join in hymning their Maker, listen with attention and devotion to each others' preachers, and all mix in society with perfect harmony."
is it meant as a derogatory term? Is it meant to scare people? Why would the media/left wonder then when these folks then take back the label for what it means and embrace it?
I am not a Christian, I do not believe in one God, I do not think that those that are Christian, Jew, Muslin, Hindu, etc are wrong. I find that folks with religious convictions, that live by them are good, trustworthy.
Know them by their deeds as I have and it is clear.
It seems that the left are embarrassed by people of their own skin color acting “religious”. Brown muslims, black churches and “ministers”, Obama using spritiuality when it suits him, etc. Its like the juvenile reaction of not wanting be seen with your mom at the mall. Strange.
From the Mayflower Compact:
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony..."
and that's just for starters.
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