That time the Congress gave America a Bible

People love to say that America was founded on Liberalism. But did you know there was a time when the US Congress authorized and recommended a Bible to the Citizens of the US? I talk about the Aitken's Bible, Thomas Paine, the American Revolution and more.
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The quotes talking about and the edition itself of the Aitken's Bible can be found in the 1960s facsimile of the Aitken's Bible.
Sources regarding Paine can be found here: www.classicapologetics.com/sp...
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[@vorynrosethorn903]

You have two forms of liberalism, English liberalism which American is founded on is a political ideology developed to justify the supremacy of parliament in the context of the English civil war and the glorious revolution. It isn't explicitly anti-Christian just very Calvinist, seeing as the primary aim was to reframe justifications of power and legal theories of the hierarchy of power in order to delegitimise traditional Christian political concepts like the divine right of kings and the necessary of monarchs to be virtuous Christian princes anointed in God's name and taking upon themselves oaths to serve God and protect the Church.
A lot of this was done by twisting existing laws and the understanding of their origin. They not only made the claim that rights enforced by the King were in fact God ordained, but that they were direct by God, and that as they were given to the people only an elected oligarchy could enforce them on the behalf of the people. It was a neat powergrap in the tradition of the old feudal power struggles between the estates. Whoever English-Liberalism is not a fully forms or cohesive ideology, and it only saw partial success in England despite a long political dominance by the Wigs, as frankly it was very unpopular (the English population being deeply conservative and their religious loyalties being largely orthodox, as in Anglican and thus monarchist, though in time even many of the Calvinists ended up monarchist, with only the non-conformists remaining as a subversive population group).
French liberalism comes from Rousseau, is a cohesive and totalising ideology and is at essence basically Satanism. Rousseau inverts the Christian moral system, defines society (as in civilisation) as a corrupting force on a man prefect by nature and creates the vision of utopia at the heart of all left wing movements and many right wing ones. This is the ideological belief system of the French revolution, of socialists, communists and two other notable ideologies of the early 20th century and of neo-libs and neo-cons. It is the ideology of progressive and liberal Christians as well, just to make it explicit, ideologies are belief systems, they are religions in every sense except the focus on the divine, they should be treated as pagan faiths as that is what they amount to.
In short liberalism is not compatible with Christianity, but the degree to which that is the case is dependant on the type of liberalism, the popular kind is the antithesis of Christianity and the older form merely heretical and contradictory.

[@ConfessionsofAConvert]

Great comment. I plan on eventually doing an analysis of Liberalism starting with Cromwell and Milton, moving to Locke, Whig history and moving into the French Revolution. Lots of stuff to unravel there.

[@Baraodojaguary]

​@@ConfessionsofAConvert liberalism is condemed by the church and pope Lion XIII

[@ConfessionsofAConvert]

@@BaraodojaguaryAmen! I am definitely not a supporter of any kind of liberalism.

[@gabrielethier2046]

It is however true that some of the founders were very religiously unorthodox, to the point where we could no longer consider them Christian

[@Somedudeidk07]

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[@leonelcastro8963]

I was at that Byzantine church God bless brother glad to have meet you

[@Luka-lf2cz]

I'm wondering what exactly are your beliefs are you a Catholic, Traditional FSSPX Catholic or what?

[@thelonelysponge5029]

That thumbnail… is it AI generated?

[@NotAutumnJ]

Dang I'm early😂