(December 9, 2013 at 11:44 pm)Drich Wrote: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2722475/posts
Your source Wrote:The Aitken Bible was championed by the people
and symbolized a dramatic release from British, and indeed government control,
over their right and ability to worship.
Read your sources as for the reason behind it.
Quote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken_(publisher)
Relevance? Chucking out the URL to Wikipedia does not a source make.
Quote:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html
Your source Wrote:" The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion in the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress to concern itself with religion, the citizenry did not object to such activities. This lack of objection suggests that both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, nonpolemical Christianity."
The underlined indicates it was a sort of thing of the times that the citizenry didn't object to, not something at all endorsed in actual law, certainly not (which your source explicitly says) in the Article of Confederation, which contained no such power granted.
Quote:http://www.hbu.edu/About-HBU/The-Campus/...ums/Dunham
Broken link.
Quote:http://aitkensbibleproject.org
http://www.thekjvbible.com/onlinegallery...tken+Bible
Again, relevance?
Quote:And if you google the aitken bible library of congress you will see pics of said bible turn open to the title page (on display in the congressional library) where it has been endorsed by congress as the official bible of the United States durning that time.
*Endorsed by the very religious in Congress, which have never had much qualms breaking their own laws for the sake of religion.
Quote:Man, I know you guys hate it when I'm right about religious stuff, so I can just imagine how frustrated one can be when I'm right about history as well. (Being fact based and all)
Lest the huffy post some how trumps the library of congress.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006473.jpg
The above is a scan of the congressional approval of this bible as the official version of the bible for the United States. As such would be used in all governmental institutions such as schools.
I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a time you've been right, rather than drop a wall of text with a smiley at the end.
As for the image, I can't see where it endorses religion legally, rather than such being in the interests of those involved, who were clearly religious.
