The Declaration Of Independence God And Evolution

Author : Simon D. Perry
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 057818141X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Declaration of Independence, God, and Evolution written by Simon D. Perry and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Simon Perry has brought together a discussion of politics, philosophy, religion, and science by using the Declaration of Independence as a backdrop. He questions whether Jefferson was motivated by God. Is there a role for religion in our government? Is God real or a fantasy? Is the Good Book really good? Why has man turned to God to achieve eternal life? Does the mythicism of creation prevail over evolution? Is man indoctrinated at an early age to accept God unconditionally? These are but a few of the questions that he deals with. As you read, you will discover others. He spent five years researching this book and it relies heavily on the great scholars of religion, science, and politics. This book lays bare our cognitive distortions of who we are and where we came from.

Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791955
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Scripture written by Pauline Maier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.

Author : Owen Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316404641
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Declaration of Independence and God written by Owen Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Self-evident truths' was a profound concept used by the drafters of the American Declaration of Independence to insist on their rights and freedom from oppressive government. How did this Enlightenment notion of self-evident human rights come to be used in this historic document and what is its true meaning? In The Declaration of Independence and God, Owen Anderson traces the concept of a self-evident creator through America's legal history. Starting from the Declaration of Independence, Anderson considers both challenges to belief in God from thinkers like Thomas Paine and American Darwinists, as well as modifications to the concept of God by theologians like Charles Finney and Paul Tillich. Combining history, philosophy and law in a unique focus, this book opens exciting new avenues for the study of America's legal history.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385542836
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing America written by Garry Wills and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)

Author : Alan Dershowitz
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470303247
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Declares Independence written by Alan Dershowitz and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it before Some of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply take it for granted. In this contentious new look at the Declaration of Independence, however, celebrated attorney Alan Dershowitz takes "America's birth certificate" and its principal author, Thomas Jefferson, to task. Dershowitz searches for the sources, history, and underlying reasoning that produced the Declaration and its particular language, from its reference to the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God" through the long list of complaints against the abuses of King George III. He points out contradictions within the document, notes how the meanings of Jefferson's words have changed over the centuries, and asks many disturbing questions, including: Where do rights come from? Do we have "unalienable rights"? Do rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" have any meaning? How could slaveowners claim to believe that "all men are created equal"? Is the God of the Declaration the God of the Bible? Does the Declaration establish a Christian State? Are there "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"? Challenging, upsetting, and controversial, this brilliant polemic may anger you, delight you, or force you to reexamine your opinions. One thing's for sure: after reading America Declares Independence, you'll never take the Declaration of Independence for granted again.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the State of Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Lotus Becker
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849649784
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Declaration of Independence written by Carl Lotus Becker and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long essay Becker analyzed the structure, drafting, and philosophy of the Declaration. He recognizes that it was not intended as an objective historical statement of the causes of the Revolution, but merely furnished a moral and legal justification for rebellion. Step by step, the colonists modified their theory to suit their needs. Whenever men become sufficiently dissatisfied with the existing regime of positive law and custom, they will be found reaching out beyond it for the rational basis of what they conceive ought to be. This is what the Americans did in their controversy with Great Britain.

Author : Alan Dershowitz
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620458659
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blasphemy written by Alan Dershowitz and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator" and “Nature’s God,” on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right’s goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States was founded on Biblical law. Understand everything from the argument to the documentation that Dershowitz uses to disprove this historical distortion.

Author : Oliver Paul Gooding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331248798
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Holy Bible written by Oliver Paul Gooding and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The People's Holy Bible: Founded on the Declaration of American Independence and the Astronomic Account of Creation or Evolution Are we Americans in rebellion against the will of God by individually, thinking and choosing for ourselves, and ruling ourselves, as we do in both religion and politics, by carrying on our free institutions? Monarchic religion which came last and by lie and force, falsely declares that its imaginary God created the people, and, therefore, has the right to rule them, through his mortal agents here on earth selected by himself. And that all who dispute this lie are in rebellion against the will of God, and that he will eternally damn them for it. The people's religion, which came first and rightfully, on the contrary, truthfully declares that God did not create the people, but that great Nature, of its own powers, from the different germs of human life did create them all free and equal, and endow them with certain inherent and inalienable rights; among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that, therefore, they have the absolute right to rule themselves, through their mortal agents selected by themselves. This declaration of the people's religion is fully sustained by that clause of our Declaration of American Independence in which our patriotic forefathers declared "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," meaning the people; and, therefore, not from any God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Richard B. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190273518
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fathers written by Richard B. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series which reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them.