MikeDwight
Well-Known Member
We may be approaching the end of Civic Religious Duty in the United States. We can examine the signs, but, nowhere can such a Complex topic be given a short or definitive answer. I will not have one for you, anyway.
When the First colonizers to form the 13 Colonies or States in America, the first successful colonists were the Reformed Westminster Confession subscribers, the Puritans. We celebrate in our Nation the Puritan Thanksgiving. This was Reagan's "City on a Hill" taken from the Puritan speech "on Christian Charity".
The Movement for the full Reformed Religion in the Church of England died down, leading to the dissolution of the Puritan structure, which was assumed by the Presbyterians , which started even in Colonial times. Puritans joined the Presbyterian Church.
When George Washington and the United States were declaring independence, a third of signers were Presbyterians. Scotland and Presbyterians know so well the need for States outside of the harms of militarists and Empires. The Anglican Church of course sided with its Central Masters in London at Westminster Abbey. Many Anglican Priests fled across to England. Anglicans continued to move toward centrality with Catholicism.
Full of much controversy, and no doubt also, wrongs, the only public legitimacy of the Confederate Government over the States was the Presbyterian Religion. No other cause of Responsibility and Duty is as near as prominent.
Woodrow Wilson and "My Country Tis of Thee" celebrate our long Patriotic history in being Puritans and then Presbyterians.
Many Presbyterians went to other countries as this being the Representation of the United States of America, specifically in Mexico and Korea.
After the Korean War, in office and for a very rational political decision making, sided with Presbyterians specifically to make our new National Motto "In God we Trust". He also added into our Pledge of Allegiance the phrase, "Under God", which makes an oath of the Union of the states, and Justice for all, obviously.
Now what we Easily Miss, is that this is probably already the state of affairs by the time of the 1920's. The Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy leads to Americans alone "editing" the Westminster Confession, they have decided with Presbyterian Modernism, to no longer have the patriotic outlook.
What we will Easily Miss, is that the 1920s had 7 Million Presbyterians, 2 Million African Americans as well. Therefore, the new direction has led to a collapse of these truths of Civic Religious Duty in America to the religion in the PCUSA to 1.4 million. This state of affairs does need to change! it will change with the death of Civic Religious Duty in the United States in any versions we are trying to express it.
Do you believe the United States will be "converted" at the National level at any other occurrence of the failing of "separation of Church and State"? Will any other Religion form an important historical context of the United States? What should be done about the reforms in this Generation that have Formed under President Eisenhower's direction in 1952 toward an insular Presbyterian patriotism? Is it the End of a Civic Religious Duty in the United States?
(Pictured: Presbyterianism founder John Knox placing the Scottish Saltire flag over top the Royal flag, the heraldry of the King and Queens of Scotland. Patriotism to the Church of a Nation and Civic Religious Duty may be diminishing and disappearing in the United States)
When the First colonizers to form the 13 Colonies or States in America, the first successful colonists were the Reformed Westminster Confession subscribers, the Puritans. We celebrate in our Nation the Puritan Thanksgiving. This was Reagan's "City on a Hill" taken from the Puritan speech "on Christian Charity".
The Movement for the full Reformed Religion in the Church of England died down, leading to the dissolution of the Puritan structure, which was assumed by the Presbyterians , which started even in Colonial times. Puritans joined the Presbyterian Church.
When George Washington and the United States were declaring independence, a third of signers were Presbyterians. Scotland and Presbyterians know so well the need for States outside of the harms of militarists and Empires. The Anglican Church of course sided with its Central Masters in London at Westminster Abbey. Many Anglican Priests fled across to England. Anglicans continued to move toward centrality with Catholicism.
Full of much controversy, and no doubt also, wrongs, the only public legitimacy of the Confederate Government over the States was the Presbyterian Religion. No other cause of Responsibility and Duty is as near as prominent.
Woodrow Wilson and "My Country Tis of Thee" celebrate our long Patriotic history in being Puritans and then Presbyterians.
Many Presbyterians went to other countries as this being the Representation of the United States of America, specifically in Mexico and Korea.
After the Korean War, in office and for a very rational political decision making, sided with Presbyterians specifically to make our new National Motto "In God we Trust". He also added into our Pledge of Allegiance the phrase, "Under God", which makes an oath of the Union of the states, and Justice for all, obviously.
Now what we Easily Miss, is that this is probably already the state of affairs by the time of the 1920's. The Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy leads to Americans alone "editing" the Westminster Confession, they have decided with Presbyterian Modernism, to no longer have the patriotic outlook.
What we will Easily Miss, is that the 1920s had 7 Million Presbyterians, 2 Million African Americans as well. Therefore, the new direction has led to a collapse of these truths of Civic Religious Duty in America to the religion in the PCUSA to 1.4 million. This state of affairs does need to change! it will change with the death of Civic Religious Duty in the United States in any versions we are trying to express it.
Do you believe the United States will be "converted" at the National level at any other occurrence of the failing of "separation of Church and State"? Will any other Religion form an important historical context of the United States? What should be done about the reforms in this Generation that have Formed under President Eisenhower's direction in 1952 toward an insular Presbyterian patriotism? Is it the End of a Civic Religious Duty in the United States?
(Pictured: Presbyterianism founder John Knox placing the Scottish Saltire flag over top the Royal flag, the heraldry of the King and Queens of Scotland. Patriotism to the Church of a Nation and Civic Religious Duty may be diminishing and disappearing in the United States)
