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Edited on Wed Oct-13-10 11:29 PM by WCGreen
The right for women to vote was sparked by religious people...
The Civil Rights movement was at it's very roots about god...
The Civil War was justified by invoking god...
Prohibition was all about god...
God was on our side in every war ever fought by the United States...
Manifest Destiny was all about god shining down on the US...
The whole idea of Exceptionalism that has always driven American Foreign Policy has always been about God...
BTW, Christmas wasn't considered a special day until the late 1800's, it has little to do with religion and more to do with pagan rituals and the birth of consumerism. It was considered a Catholic celebration and the dominate Protestant sects frown on such frivolity...
God has been at the forefront of America since the Spanish landed in the Caribbean and the Pilgrims set foot in Massachusetts.
People were still saying prayers in public schools until the 1950's.
JFK had to prove that an American Catholic wouldn't be beholden to the Pope.
Communities shut down on Sunday, I remember the Blue Laws. You couldn't buy liquor, almost every store was closed, people went to church and stayed home.
Believe me, I'm not a big fan, I'm just pointing out that since Jimmy Carter ran for President as an avowed Christian and a Minister to boot, God has been front and center in every election since 1976.
Lest we forget, Martin Luther King was a minster, almost every major figure in the Civil Rights movement, black and white, were ministers.
Just because congress met on Christmas day and Jefferson Bibles were handed out doesn't mean that religion did not play an important role in American Politics.
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