{"id":920,"date":"2009-07-17T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:55:50","slug":"religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Great Awakening, Part 8: Respecting our national origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the USA a &#8220;Christian nation&#8221;?  Depends on what you mean by that, I suppose.  But its origin in Judeo-Christian principles is clear, based on founding documents, acts of congress and presidents, and the writings of the founders.\u00a0 The recognition and celebration of that heritage has been nearly universal among US national leaders until very recent times.\u00a0 You can decide if that was a good thing, or a bad thing, but you can&#8217;t pretend it is a non-thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dpQOCvthw-o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-920\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-920\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-920\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/17\/religion-america-liberty-freedom-government-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the USA a &#8220;Christian nation&#8221;? 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