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Subject:  American Minute - Oct. 31 - The Founders & "Political Protestantism"
Date:  Fri, 2 Nov 2007 06:19:48 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

October 31

Upon signing the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams stated:

"This day, I trust, the reign of political protestantism will
commence."

The 56 signers were mostly Protestant, with a notable exception being
Catholic Charles Carroll of Maryland.

New York University Professor Emeritus Patricia Bonomi, in her
article "The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious
Pluralism" wrote: "The colonists were about 98 percent Protestant."

British Statesman Edmund Burke addressed Parliament, 1775:

"All Protestantism...is a sort of dissent. But the religion most
prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle
of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism
of the Protestant religion."

Protestantism traces its origins to OCTOBER 31, 1517, when Martin
Luther posted 95 questions on the door of Wittenberg Church.

Summoned to stand trial before 21-year-old Emperor Charles V, Luther
was declared an outlaw.

Frederick of Saxony hid him in Wartburg castle where he translated
the New Testament into German.

Luther later wrote:

"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of
hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures,
engraving them in the hearts of youth."



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