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Noted for its biting irony and bitter rhetoric, and acute textual analysis of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Christian Bible, the speech is among the most widely known of all of Douglass's writings. [5] Many copies of one section of it, beginning in paragraph 32, have been circulated online. [6]
1971 – President of the Bahamas Christian Council [1] [2] 1972 – Principal of The Baptist Bible Institute 1973 – Preached the First Independence Day Sermon to the New Nation 1974 – Chaplain of Her Majesty's Prisons.
The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message is the name of three related church groups and a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, headquartered in Independence, Missouri. It split from the Church of Christ (informally referred to as the "Fettingites") in 1943 in a dispute over claimed revelations given to its founder William A. Draves.
Theodore of Mopsuestia In Commentary on Philemon 2.264.10–14, he comments that some Christian ecclesiastics of his day 'would write with great authority that a slave who joined us in the faith and hastened to the true religion of his own free will should be freed from slavery. For there are many such people today, who want to be seen to be ...
Yet the day he was praising was July 2, the day independence was declared by the Second Continental Congress, not July 4. Yes, folks, we Americans are doing it wrong by celebrating Independence ...
He was a Christian deist because he saw Christianity as the highest expression of natural religion and Jesus as an incomparably great moral teacher. He was not an orthodox Christian because he rejected, among other things, the doctrines that Jesus was the promised Messiah and the incarnate Son of God. Jefferson's religion is fairly typical of ...
During the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s, "Liberty or Death" (Eleftheria i thanatos) became a rallying cry for Greeks who rebelled against Ottoman rule. [32] During this same period, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil purportedly uttered the famous "Cry from [the river] Ipiranga" , "Independence or Death" ( Independência ou Morte ) in 1821 ...
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center (FLDC) was a museum on Philadelphia's Independence Mall. The purpose of the museum, owned and operated by American Bible Society, was to explore the impact of Bible and religion on American society, particularly the impact during the Colonial American Period. The museum had galleries dedicated towards ...