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Tuesday 1 September 2020

Is that shining city on the hill in fact Muslim?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill

A discussion with some Americans about Catholicism, Protestantism, feminism and Islam

Hannity talks about America being that shining city upon a hill. Is any public intellectual in the West prepared to discuss whether most of the Founding Fathers were in fact proto-Muslim?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams#Religious_views

He blamed institutional Christianity for causing much suffering but continued to be an active Christian while maintaining that religion was necessary for society. He became a Unitarian, rejecting the divinity of Jesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Virtue,_religion,_and_personal_beliefs

As a young man he rejected Christian dogma in a 1725 pamphlet A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, which he later saw as an embarrassment, while simultaneously asserting that God is "all wise, all good, all powerful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Thomas_Jefferson

The religious views of Thomas Jefferson diverged widely from the traditional Christianity of his era. Throughout his life, Jefferson was intensely interested in theology, religious studies, and morality.  Jefferson was most comfortable with Deism, rational religion, Theistic rationalism, and Unitarianism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison#Religion

Although baptized as an Anglican and educated by Presbyterian clergymen, young Madison was an avid reader of English deist tracts. As an adult, Madison paid little attention to religious matters. Though most historians have found little indication of his religious leanings after he left college, some scholars indicate he leaned toward deism. Others maintain that Madison accepted Christian tenets and formed his outlook on life with a Christian world view.

Regardless of his own religious beliefs, Madison believed in religious liberty, and he advocated for Virginia's disestablishment of the Anglican Church throughout the late 1770s and 1780s. He also opposed the appointments of chaplains for Congress and the armed forces, arguing that the appointments produce religious exclusion as well as political disharmony. In 1819, Madison said, "The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood & the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the Church from the State."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_George_Washington#Deism_and_scholarly_views


Even during his lifetime, people were unsure of the degree to which Washington believed in Christianity. As noted above, some of his contemporaries called him a deist. Debate continues to this day regarding whether he is best categorized as a deist or as a Christian, and some writers have introduced other terms to describe a blending of the two.


Inside the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court, perched above the press seating area is the North Wall frieze dedicated to the “great lawgivers of law” to portray the development of law throughout history – and one of the figures immortalised is the prophet Muhammad. A frieze built between 1931 and 1932 in time for the buildings grand opening in 1935.



After all, Muhammad is already on the frieze of the American Supreme Court and the White House Koran was in fact Thomas Jefferson's.

Prophet Muhammad Honored By the U.S. Supreme Court As One Of The Greatest Lawgivers Of The World In 1935

The First Amendment was based on quran.com/2/256

The First Amendment was derived from the Koran

Think and Grow Rich author Napoleon Hill promoted Islam!

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