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Subject: TOLERANCE NOT TOLERATED
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 00:51:25 -0500
From: REAL NEWS thenewsman@ij.net


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ATHEISM IS THE NEW RELIGION FAVORED BY SECULARS
By William J. Federer, author
(2005 WorldNetDaily.com)

How did America go from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their
Judeo-Christian beliefs to today's discrimination against those very
beliefs in the name of tolerance?

The journey of the evolution of tolerance began in England. When Henry
VIII's divorce was not recognized by the pope, he decided to be his own
"pope" of the Church of England and eventually had six wives, their fates
being divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

His advisers suggested that to solidify his break with Rome, he should
replace the Latin Bible with an English Bible so people there would look to
England for their spiritual heritage. Henry did, but something unexpected
happened -- people began to read the Bible and compare what was written in
it to the king divorcing and beheading his wives.

This group wanted to purify the Church of England, resulting in their
nickname, "Puritans". The king did not think he needed purifying, so he
persecuted them, resulting in 20,000 Puritans fleeing to Massachusetts,
where they tolerated . . . only Puritans.

Roger Williams was not tolerated in Massachusetts, so he fled, founding
Providence, R.I., and the first Baptist church in America. Thomas Hooker
was not tolerated, so he fled, founding Hartford, Conn., and the
Congregational Church. The Quakers, considered heretics, were not tolerated
and, with leader William Penn, they founded Pennsylvania. Within a
generation, tolerance developed for all Protestant denominations.

Another generation went by, and Catholics began to be tolerated.
Maryland was the first colony to tolerate Catholics with its Toleration
Act; Philadelphia built its first Catholic church in 1731; and in 1776, one
of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was Catholic, Charles
Carroll, who was the richest man in America, and his cousin started
Georgetown.

In the early 1800s, French enlightenment thought experienced a period
of popularity in New England, and tolerance was extended to "liberal"
Christian denominations, such as Unitarians and Universalists, as they
quoted from the Bible and called themselves followers of Christ.

The expanding Christian populace decided to promote tolerance of
non-Christians, based on Jesus' example of never forcing anyone to believe
in him, and that to be pleasing to God, true religion was voluntary from
the inside-out, not forced from the outside-in. To fulfill the Great
Commission, therefore, those of other faiths should be allowed to come in
so they might have an opportunity to hear the Gospel.

Jews experienced varying degrees of tolerance, but it was not until
1851 that Maryland's Constitution was amended to let Jews hold office. In
1860, Morris Jacob Raphall was the first Rabbi ever to open a session of
Congress with prayer, and President Lincoln was the first to allow Hebrew
chaplains in the military.

In the second half of the 1800s, tolerance was extended to monotheists
-- anyone believing in one God. U.S. coins were inscribed with the National
Motto, "In God We Trust", -- not "gods". Oaths of office ended with "So
Help Me God", -- not "gods". A monotheistic God was acknowledged in federal
courts, which open with the invocation "God save the United States and this
honorable court." Presidents acknowledged God in their Inaugural Addresses,
and each of the 50 state constitutions made reference to God.

Many state constitutions forbade citizenship to Chinese, Japanese and
other "Mongolian" races, in part because they were polytheists, believing
in many gods. In the early 1900s, tolerance began to expand to polytheists
and finally believers in any other religion.

Then, in the last half of the 1900s, tolerance went out to atheists,
secular humanists and the anti-religious.

Today, the government's "World Factbook" lists the United States as
being 78 percent Christian (52 percent Protestant, 24 percent Catholic, 2
percent Mormon), 1 percent Jewish, 1 percent Muslim, 10 percent other, and
10 percent none. Ten years ago, it listed the country as 84 percent
Christian. But back at the time of America's founding, this percentage was
well over 90 percent.

America's predominately Christian founders -- basing their concept on
the Golden Rule from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "do unto others as you
would have them do undo you," and Jesus' example of never forcing anyone to
believe in him -- enlarged the circle of tolerance by attempting to find
common ground with the newly arrived immigrants and newly invented beliefs.

The problem today is those "not believing" are now demonstrating
intolerance to those "believing", as seen by many activist court cases to
remove God from the Pledge, prohibit Ten Commandments monuments, erase
Judeo-Christian symbols off city seals, stop prayer at school ball games
and graduations, ban Boy Scouts and Salvation Army, and censor historical
documents. They are, in effect, establishing a State Religion of Atheistic
Secular Humanism.

President Reagan, Feb. 25, 1984, stated: "We're told our children have
no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward
intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the
balance."

--William J. Federer, is a best-selling author and the president of
Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America's
noble heritage.
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