Some students really struggle with the idea of the role of religion in the founding and settling of America. Among interesting misconceptions I’ve run into in the past 18 months: Spanish settlers of Texas were Baptists (since so many Texans are Baptist today); the religious fights in England leading to the English Bill of Rights was between “Christians and others.”
I’m not sure Outreach Magazine’s list of the top 100 church congregations in the U.S., by size, would do anything to disabuse students of any of their misconceptions. Do we adequately teach about the role of religion in U.S. history? Why are so many students so ill informed? Can these churches help out?
Are churches doing their part in teaching the importance of freedom of religion, and especially of the history of religious strife in the western world? It doesn’t appear so. Maybe that list is the 100 top places for educators to visit to ask for help in getting the kids straight on the history of religion.
By the way: Spanish settlers of Texas were Catholic; the religious fights in England tended to be between Catholics and Anglicans, both considered Christian sects, to the surprise of too many students. Oy.
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Who is the heartless illegitimate one who is sending all you poor deluded people to this blog for help? Whoever is sending you, punch him in the nose for me, will you?
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please ineed your help
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I am a pastor from bangladesh.I would like to make fellowship with your church and pastor. Pl introduce to me with your church.
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Sorry!
From Turkey in Antalya.
I’m student of METU in Ankara.
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How can I learn about informatin biggest congregations of America? Help me!
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You’ll have to talk to charitable organizations and the government in Pakistan — nothing I can do to help.
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Dear Sir,
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my father and mether is an old man and do not work .my father is not in a position to done further work.my four brother and two sister.
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Mr. Osei, this is a blog about history, education and politics. Nothing we can do for you here.
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hello am pastor Emmanuel Osei from Ghana and will want to contact your ministry so that we can work together in Ghana so that we can help the needy and plant churches and the orpan homes.i will be very happy and grateful if you missionaries come to Ghanai am founder of Needy Network Foundation, an NGO that has the desire to provide and take care of needy and deprived children and families in society. Though there may be no war in Ghana, some needy children and orphans families living in a very poor conditions in Ghana. we will be glad if you can assist us to educate,cater and equip these children and families with some technical skills and knowledge.Assistance in form of scholarships, education,Health and This is to help the needy in order to survive.
Best regards,Survival is the only concern for orphans in poverty stricken communities. As an
orphan, the child has the choice of begging, selling unthinkable services, becoming a
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nutrition, and emotional support orphaned children who are a result of poverty will
most likely stay in poverty for the rest of their life.
• If we,can help an outpouring of God’s love to His people than we
cannot ignore the orphan crisis. We have to become involved in bringing hope to
orphans around the world by first bringing them before God in prayer. In James 1:27
we are told that pure religion is to look after widows and orphans. We are to not
only bring them before God in prayer but we also need to get involved by trusting
that God will use us and our resources to change lives worldwide.
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I rather like Ghandi’s quote about people like Iceman and Hattip:
That quote being:
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
And as for you, Christian, preaching and prosetylizing where you are not asked to do so is nothing more then arrogant sophistry in the name of God. You did not serve God or Christ in what you did, you only served your own ego.
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The first four commenters excepted.
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Why does this post attract all the nuts?
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Jesus Christ is true and right and by my words, I aim to prove it, would anybody like to contend me? you could say that all the bibles are story books, mainly about the exploits of God or people of God, but the story of Jesus Christ is an amazing story. Why is it so amazing you may ask. The mystery of Jesus Christ is not just in his words but in the story. Let me collaborate with you. What I am going to talk about may take some understanding so please be patient with me, What I am going to do is try and prove that Jesus Christ must be a true story, by telling you about the story, the mystery of Jesus Christ is not so much in the words but in the story. Many people read the bible and know the story of Jesus Christ, the greatest minds on earth have been baffled by the words of this story and the words of this man.
Firstly lets forget that by faith you have to believe because hopefully after reading what you are about to read you will understand that the story of Jesus Christ would have been impossible to have made up, by the standards of the world and by human nature. I am not so much going to talk about Jesus Christ, I am aiming at how great the author of the writer of the stories of Jesus Christ would have to be.
I am not going to post much scripture, the scripture is there to be read, but that actually even though people talk about sins to believe in Jesus Christ is to have your sins forgiven. The story of Jesus Christ is not about sins, so if you believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ your sins will be forgiven. Forget that you have sins it is not important because you would already be saved, Though I am not saying go and sin freely, but I think maybe sins are caused by things like depression, and there are different factors that may cause somebody to sin. so you could say there is a mystery there of why the people of Jesus Christ are to have there sins forgiven. But forgiving sins was something he was able too do, Just to state that whoever wrote about a man who could forgive sins. Why would the author of a made up story give power to a man to be able to forgive sins, It’s not really a power you would give a God you where writing about, This statement will have better meaning as you read on. But to explain a little better, when people make up stories about Gods, they usually have lighting coming from there hands or something, So firstly why would the author of this story give somebody the power to forgive sins? what kind of power is that, if a power at all,
The greatest message in the story of Jesus Christ is about power, not about sin. The story of Jesus Christ actually shows little power by human standards. If you think of the mythological Gods, they all had powers, but human nature if somebody was going to make up a story about a God, or the son of God they would in some way give powers to there God, Think deeply about this, because the author of Jesus Christ is unique by many standards because he never gave who he wrote about powers to harm another or be able to harm another. What people even do today is state there God to be all powerful, What I am writing takes some understanding, forget for a moment that Jesus Christ was writen about as a powerful person and his father a powerful person, what I am saying is forget revelations for a minute, because there are some people, who even worship Jesus Christ or his God because of the power he said his Father has, or the power to take many lives is writen in revelations. you have to think the story of Jesus Christ is in three parts. His life unto his death, his death and the resurrection. Then revelations.
The author of the story of Jesus Christ in the first part of his life before the death and resurrection, gave him no power at all on human standards. If you where going to write a story about a God would you not give him powers to conquer other people? this makes the story of Jesus Christ unique if you think it made up. But he did do many great things to help people, he fed people. grew limbs back, he did things that where not seen as powers much by other people, but they where great powers by any standards. The story of the son of God is about power. He was one man who was written about as the son of God, but instead of him taking lives, people tried to take his life, If somebody was going to make up a story about the son of God; firstly they made him a coward, because he always escaped there grasp, he run away from them so they would not catch him. So the authors of the bible wrote about the son of God who was a coward. But he showed great strength by facing his death and not lying even to save himself.
It’s fair to say that the story of Jesus Christ, must have been created by the greatest mind to ever walk the earth, firstly the words of the bible have baffled people for two thousand years, people put there own meaning to the words, so whoever wrote the bible; the author must have been the greatest brain ever to have accomplished the greatest thing ever to have been accomplished, because the author wrote down things that people still today struggle to understand.
The fact that the bible has lasted so long and the words been spread in it’s own right states that the author must have had high intelligence if you think it just a story, but the story of Jesus Christ is much more, many people say it is just a made up story about a man that started life out in a stable and was a carpenter. Not only did they write about a God who came to earth, they killed him, why would somebody make up a story about a weak God who came to earth? this actually puts a twist into the story, because Jesus Christ being the son of God, you would think would still be here because he is the son of God, Why would the authors of the bible bring a God to earth? It actually limits the story because, he did not defeat anybody, because the powers that the authors gave him where powers to help people. But they wrote about a God or the son of God who died at the hands of people. No other God in history had no power over other people, even the mythological Gods had power over others, even the son of Zeus had amazing strength to beat his enemies.
I submit to you why the bible must be the truth, it seems that by human standards it would be impossible to have done what has been done unless the story is the truth. The fact that it has lasted so long could also tell you something, the fact that it has baffled the greatest minds on earth, is also amazing, there cannot be a greater mind than the author of the bible, whether it was written by somebody high in the world or by some tramp off the streets. The fact that it has so many mysteries behind it is so amazing. people shrug the story of Jesus Christ off. Ask yourself why? and also why do people worship the father of Jesus Christ and also worship Jesus Christ, by human nature it could not have been made up and if it was; it was by the greatest minds ever to have been on earth, if it was not a true story.
Let me explain why the story of Jesus Christ is as great if not greater than the writing of his words that people think riddles, It seems the greatest so seen minds on earth have missed this fact, and it holds the truth. OK, so you could say somebody wrote a book, it did not just last a few years and die it has lasted a long time and has become the greatest book on earth. Why is the story of Jesus Christ greater than any other story, and what makes it true and right you may ask, you may say there are many stories, not just about Jesus Christ. There are other bibles, so what makes the story of Jesus Christ greater than any other story ever write? The stories of the other bibles are actually blown away by the story of Jesus Christ. How and why you may ask?
The reason I say it must be a true story is; why would somebody write a story about a God that died, or the son of there God to die? How does that say the story is true you may ask? how many stories have been written about a God or the son of God, and actually have him in some way defeated, nobody these days would state there God to be weak. What is the point of writing a book about a weak God. It goes against human nature to make there God to die especially at the hands of humans. Even if it is just a story, what has been accomplished far surpasses anything ever written.
how can anybody worship somebody who died? But people do. Why; because he never hurt anybody? It’s like people are saying you can’t defeat my God he let his son die at the hands of humans what a great God! what make people think that God would help anybody else in the world if he did not even help his son? so it goes against all logical thinking, you would think if somebody was going to write a story they would not have him killed even if he did raise from the dead. But not only did the author of the bible raise the son of God from the dead, they let people decide for themselves whether he did raise from the dead.
The authors of the story of Jesus Christ then even gave God no power over humans, but did If you believe in the resurrection. the psychology behind this is so deep, because faith is a strong word, they left the resurrection in such a way that you have to have faith in God to believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead, there is not any proof of this happening because the author cleverly actually got rid of Jesus Christ also, even if he did raise from the dead they ascended him up to his father. But I suppose if it was just a story then they would have to have done that as to finish the story. But if you don’t believe then God was never glorified at all. Why would somebody write a story about the son of God and his father and not give him power over something. There are many factors to look at. nobody writes a story about a weak God it just isn’t done. but through the resurrection where able to actual make the decision the readers. all through the teachings of Jesus Christ he tried to glorify his father, The author therefore has writen an amazing book about the son of God who tried to glorify his father, but never achieved it unless you believe in the resurrection.
Lets look at this in a bit more detail, somebody then wrote a story about a poor man that walked the earth and showed no great power by human standards, otherwise he did not even take one life, he was a person that actually helped humans and was killed for it. So he was a kind and gentle person, who walked the earth not actually glorifying himself in any way, this also goes against human nature. So he tried to glorify God on his travels with powers that where not seen as power by humans. somebody actually wrote about these sorts of powers, so the authors of this story actually did not give him great power, why did they not give him powers by human standards? It seems that by human standards power is to be able to take as many lives as possible, or have power over another, How did somebody think up these powers? but the person who had them. Jesus Christ, did not glorify himself, and by human standards goes against human nature also, to actually be able to write a story like that of Jesus Christ. How did somebody write about a God or the son of God that actually was a nice person, and did not take one life even though his life was threatened? he tried to glorify his father who is the most high God, and not only did they write about the son of God and kill him with no power; they also perceived there God to have no power, because he never even helped his own son. according to the authors of this story. It is human nature to use there power against others to defeat others, but he was not even given the power to get himself down from a cross.
All stories about Gods are usually depicted by what they can give to humans, or that they are more powerful than a human, but the authors of the story of Jesus Christ, had him die at the hands of humans. Even though he died, if you don’t believe in the resurrection. There has no other God ever died at the hands of humans especially a God whose son said he was the most high. many people say that God gave them power in battle or they achieved by the strengh of there God, even the mythological God where more powerful than humans, bullied them in some way. But Jesus Christ was completely the opposite, he helped humans who where suffering, by doing so greatening his God, but he never become great while he lived as the story depicts, It was not till his death that he was established. But even though he died, for some reason he has become the greatest God ever to have become of resonance. How did the author know that his words would last so long about a God who died? and actually state it within his story. Jesus Christ said” I will be known from the least to the greatest”” the world will pass away but my words wont pass away” Amazing! The author of a book wrote about the son of God and it happened, If it was just a story then surely when the author resurrected Jesus Christ, they would have wrote more about him. How then could the story of Jesus Christ be made up? It has actually happened it’s not like somebody has writen it into a book, and write it happening in another story about Jesus Christ. So if this actually happened to look at the world and know it has actually happened he is known from the least to the greatest, then the story must be a true story. not only did the author of the bible write a story they wrote about things that would happen. and it has happened. There is no denying it he is known from the least to the greatest.
Jesus Christ then was written about he was poor he very often had to escape people who tried to kill him.He was a carpenter, and used his power to help people, and whoever believe in him had there sins forgiven, wow somebody wrote a story about a man that had very little power, other than help those who needed help, but he was killed at the hands of humans, so up until this point his death, he has not glorified his father, he certainly had not glorified himself. But the authors of the bible, did glorify God if you believe in the resurrection. Therefore the authors left it unto the reader to determine whether at this point you think God glorified himself through the son, but by not actually taking a life by raising his son from the dead. The story of the resurrection then says that God can save life and give life where life was lost, which if you think about it glorifies God above anything else. The point is even up to the resurrection he was not glorified to humans, Why would somebody write a Book on a God or God son and not blatantly glorify him above others. But even though he was not blatantly glorified as a great God people worship him.
After the resurrection the book of revelations was written, It seems even though there are many mysteries in the bible, and people change the words to there own meaning, that people still actually wait for God to came and glorify himself by taking life, The authors of the bible than, made there God weak, he was defeated at the cross if you don’t believe he rose from the dead. But the authors of the bible did not even glorify God after the resurrection, Jesus Christ did not take one life but saved many, but the way God is glorified is by sending people to hell or a lake of fire, even though the bible is a mystery people try to bully people by telling them they are going into a lake of fire, so the human concepts of what power is still wrong. It seems the greatest God is the one who can take more life than the next. They even Got people to ask Jesus Christ if you are the son of God get yourself down from the cross, Its as if the authors of the bible where also testing the God they wrote about.
It seems whoever can take more life is in some way greater than he who gave life. But the son of God has become great by not taking a single life but by laying his own life down. Why would somebody write a story about a God, and kill him or the son of God and kill him? How could anybody write a story about the son of a God who lives forever, but his son would die at the hands of humans? but by his words he has baffled so many people. How great was the author of this story then, not only glorifying a God who does not die, but also by glorifying his son who died at the hands of humans, and it actually become known throughout the world, and people proclaim him to be the greatest God in existence. Again it is the human concepts of power.
because he stated his God would torment for a thousand years. people have taken it upon themselves to judge people and send them to hell because Jesus Christ could send to hell, but surely nobody knows who has gone to hell. This depicts that humans search for power and the only power is to take life suppress or be stronger or better than somebody else. you could then say that somebody wrote a book and glorified humans as to kill the son of the most high God, but the story is nobody will escape judgement day that people don’t believe in, but humans have asked for this kind of power to be submitted by God, It seems that humans want God to show his power by how much punishment he can dish out to others and by how many people he can kill at once. He stated he was the most high God the beginning and the end, otherwise if he wanted too, he could destroy everything he has created. But people still search for somebody greater than the most high God, not only have humans taken the life of the son of God according to the authors of the bible, because of there own submissions of power, people also now think there is a power that can kill God. It seems that somebody thinks to be able to kill as much as you can someway makes you more powerful than anything else. It’s not good enough that God creates life, not only do people deny him, they think there is something out there greater than him. Why would people want a greater power than the power of the most high?
Why somebody would make up a story, bring there God to earth and not actually defeat anybody is beyond me, but you could say that the story written about Jesus Christ ended when he died, because you could say he had to, to seal the story. The question is still why would somebody write a story about a man that came to earth, faced many people, actually people live to his teachings or say they do, so somebody had to have the intelligence not only to write a story about a person who came to earth to glorify his father God and die at the hands of humans.
even herculese had a family and friends, but it seems the son of God had no friends and also, was not liked by many people. even though he did things to help people, people still took his life well tried too. he had his disciples but one of them even betrayed him. It therefore is a story about a man that tried to glorify his father who he knew and nobody else knew. Even today nobody depicts any kind of power with weakness, even today people like to say there God is greater than any other God. Why then would somebody write a story about a God that did not use his power to defeat anybody? It seems the world has asked for God to prove himself, or want God to prove himself in some way, really it cant be a clever thing to ask God to prove his power, not by taking lives anyway, humans have very little power, they can only kill the flesh, they can give a slow death or a long death, but even if somebody tried to torture somebody for a life time, they still could not defeat God because he lives forever, so really the lake of fire, is only a short time to him.
It seems to conclude, that the story of Jesus Christ goes against the human concepts of power, Who could have written a book like that? Why would anybody write a story about a God that was killed not just any God but the son of the most high God, Why would they have even not saved the son of God? but not only kill him but only glorify God if they believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead? not only did they not glorify there God, he was killed at the hands of humans, the story has lasted two thousand years, and people worship The God that sent him. Why?
It seems the authors of the story of Jesus Christ have evolved the world around Jesus Christ which is an amazing task, not only have they writen about the son of God who died; got everybody to know about the story, did not have him kill one person on his travels, but have actually, got the world to either believe in the son of God to be a saviour, they have got the world to either be for him or against him.Not only have the authors of Jesus Christ managed to get a lot of the world to worship the son of God who died, They have managed to get the world worship God through him.
so whoever wrote the story of Jesus Christ baffled many people by writing words about Jesus Chirst, they did not just write a story they would have had to also make up everything he said to others, every word he spoke, if Jesus Christ did not exist, it was the author of the bible, who has baffled so many people. The son of God was even mocked and killed. it seems impossible that the story of Jesus Christ could be made up. Why would the author of a story go to so much trouble to write about a God that showed no power by human standards.
I have often thought that God has not glorified himself, he hasn’t by human standards, It’s as if the author of the bible wrote about the son of God, who was mocked killed rose from the dead and left. as i say the human concepts of power are usually against somebody else to defeat them, so revelations was written about the son of God who would come back, not only defeat the people who crucified him, but judge the world on how people perceive the story of Jesus Christ. so the authors have him died and then he left, then it states he will come back and take the world on, by his power. therefore Jesus Christ left so that he could come back and take revenge on all people who either have excepted him or not. It’s as if people wanted him to show some sort of power by there mentality, to take life even though he did not take one life, he comes back to take the whole world on. So the authors of this story not only wanted people to test the power of the son of God, he did not stand up against maybe a few thousand people, the authors actually have him come back to take on billions of people, they wrote a story about somebody that showed no power but one day would come back not only take just a hand few of people on, they have him come back to take everybody on. Even though Jesus Christ showed great powers towards people, the author of the story of Jesus Christ, made it as he had no power. So it seems the resurrection is important, but the death must have been a mistake at the hands of humans. it was not until after the death of JESUS Christ that the authors stated God to be the first and the last the beginning and the end. The authors of the bible have even got people to believe that one day he would come back, how have they accomplished this?
How have the authors of a story got people to believe that the person they wrote about, would come back after his death, and it spread arround the world, and make it so the whole world will face him? and actually get people to believe it would happen, get people to live has he has asked them, if it is not going to happen. The inteligence of the author of the story of Jesus Christ sours above everybody on the planet. How could they know it would stay.
I have heard atheist compare the story of Jesus Christ to Harry potter, what kind of a statement is that, it just shows the intelligence of an atheist. will Harry potter be worshiped? could they kill him off and have him come on the world we live on? thinking about that the story about Jesus Christ actually is based upon the world we live upon. The authors did not write places that did not exist The story is actually about somebody who walked places upon the earth, actual places upon the earth. The author must have been well traveled, to know so many different places on the world. Is there a place called hoggwarts on the world? no it’s fictional, somebody wrote a story and actually placed the person they talked about on the world we live in.
It actually boggles the mind how the author of the story of Jesus Christ has managed to achieve so many things.
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Dear Beloved Friends and Co-workers
Receive Warm greetings from africa in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!
We would love to share this with you as one family in Christ. Be blessed for your prayers and love and the good works you do in your Ministries.
We are a Ministry founded and established in Bungoma, Kenya, East africa with more than 310 church branches in East and central africa with the name GOSPEL BELIEVERS FELLOWSHIP Ministries.
The Lord has enabled us to have several projects that we run under our local Ministry.
– CHURCH PLANTING
– ORPHANAGE/ NEEDY/ STREET KIDS/ WIDOWS PROGRAMMES
– PRIMARY SCHOOLS ESTABLISHMENT AND SPONSORSHIP
– LIBRARY SERVICES MAJORLY WITH CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
– SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, RALLIES, FORUMS ETC.
– EVANGELISM WITH DOOR TO DOOR AND CRUSADES
– BOREHOLE WELL DRILLING AND DIGGING
– BIBLE SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT – COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
– BIBLE PASTORAL CORRESPONDENCE TEACHING/ TRAINING PROGRAM
– HIV/AIDS PROGRAMMES
– HEALTH PROGRAMMES/ SERVICES
– POVERTY ERADICATION PROGRAMMES – COMMUNITY SMALL SCALE PROJECTS
– DEAF SCHOOL PROJECTS
– AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS
All these activities need the Lord’s hand to sustain them and accomplish what the Lord Himself has purposed.
This is our prayers that He will give us people to provide for Bible school project that needs to be completed; many of our church workers are not trained and the project will play a bigger role in equiping the Lord’s people in this vast region.Small Orphanage project in Bungoma that has already one house and 20 kids out of the many still out in the many branches we have in EAst Africa, christian Library literatures,Sunday school material, etc.
We would like to put this before you because your prayers are very important for the Lord’s needs and lift up Jesus in one way or another.
We were lead to have you join us for the Lord’s will, plan, purpose and glory and would like also to extend our invitation for you into our Ministry as the Lord enables you to come and visit us in africa to see what the Lord is doing.
AS FOR NOW, THE URGENT NEED IS FOR 10 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FACED WITH FAMINE, PRAY WITH US FOR GOD TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE PEOPLE IN A COUNTRY OF 35 MILLIONS POPULATION.
We only have one hope in Jesus Christ, the savior of the world.
May the Lord bless you all for your concern, love, prayers and sacrifice.
In His Vineyard,
Rev. Robert and Irene Bushebi
GBF Ministries
Administrator.
P.O. BOX 766
BUNGOMA – 50200
KENYA, East Africa
EMAIL: bushebi@africaonline.co.ke or gbfministry@yahoo.com.
PHONE: +254735781802
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amazing!god loves us even sinners
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wow i believe that its amazing that god created us
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Gee, Ice Man, that’s about as offensive as it’s possible to get without actually offering a profanity against somebody’s mother. Any reason I shouldn’t delete the comment?
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Readers? Can anyone help Sampson out?
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CAN YOU KINDLY HELP TO GET A PERSONAL BIBLE AND ANY OTHER STATIONARIES FOR FRIENDS. MY ADDRESS IS
SAMPSON ACQUAH
BOX 673
TESHIE-NUNGUA ESTATE
ACCRA GHANA
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Merci!
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Teddy:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedytruth&tolerance.htm
Mario:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariocuomoreligiousbelief.htm
JFK:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkhoustonministers.html
Glad I could help.
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Which Ted Kennedy speech is that? Have you got a link?
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I think the best resources are the trio of political speeches on religion: J.F.K.’s Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Mario Cuomo’s speech at Notre Dame and Ted Kennedy’s speech from the ’80s. Especially Cuomo’s in a history class — he clearly explains the historical role of religion in the founding of American government.
If I were serious about hitting hard the stuff relating to religion, I’d give them a good, solid background with all three speeches, and maybe throwing in a clip or two of Jesse Jackson, Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee.
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Since the words Catholic and Pope are used so much in the materials I use for my exploration unit I I have to fully explain what a Catholic is. 98% of my students are Baptist or Methodist. They are amazed to discover all three groups are Christians.
I don’t know if the churches could be any help. Most of the Baptists I know have no clue as to how their beliefs came to be, or the history of the early Christian church for that matter. They are Baptists mainly because their parents were.
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