American Creation

 I don't know how I missed it, but I did. When I opened YouTube today, I saw it for the first time, even though it was announced in 2022 . What is "it"? Well... It's Michael Douglas starring a...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2024/03/michael-douglas-as-benjamin-franklin.html

Biblical conspiracy theorists hypothesize about the identity of the "revived Roman Empire" who will host the Antichrist during end times or something like that. I'm not getting into that. Many ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2024/02/america-revived-roman-republic.html

See Part I here . More from Sen. Hawley: > God gave rulers authority to command and coerce, BUT ONLY INSOFAR > AS THEY PROTECTED THE LIBERTIES OF THE PEOPLE. God instructed...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2024/02/observations-on-senator-josh-hawleys_16.html

He wrote this for First Things , a respected scholarly journal. Let me note up front I'm not interested in fighting political-cultural war battles over the "Christian Nation" issue. Plenty of fo...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2024/02/observations-on-senator-josh-hawleys.html

Much has been written here about the "unitarians" of the Founding era. John Adams averred he was one, as did Abigail Adams. But were they Christians? Well, they certainly considered themselves ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2024/01/who-were-unitarians.html

"Christmas, 6 P.M….It is fearfully cold and raw and a snow-storm setting in. The wind is northeast and beats in the faces of the men. It will be a terrible night for the soldiers who have no sh...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/12/on-this-night-in-1776-washington-and.html

     For a glimpse into Masonic thought at the creation of the United States, I share with American Creation a small portion of a sermon delivered before a group of Freemasons in 1784 on St. J...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/12/to-fear-god-masonic-thought-at-founding.html

 Today, John Locke is held to be an Enlightenment philosopher, "Enlightenment" used as rationalism in contradistinction to religious faith and the Christian Bible. However, the Founders largely ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/11/john-locke-on-romans-13-and-duty-to.html

This post is intended to be a brief overview of Dr. Joseph Waligore's new book on deism . I plan on having much more to say, but in this post, I try to hit some main points. Waligore obse...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-dr-waligore-categorizes-different.html

I've been absent from blogging for a few months because of a busy work-life (better to be busy than not!), but I've been planning on writing a great deal on this book  by Dr. Joseph Walig...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/07/dr-joseph-waligores-new-book-on-deism.html

Not sure how many of you have jumped on the AI art trend, but I thought I'd try something a little light today. Something not too intellectually heavy and (hopefully) not too controversial -- tho...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/07/ai-art-american-revolutionary-period.html

  Resistance Theory, or the study of how different groups and individuals came to justify their opposition to authority, has emerged as a pivotal battlefield for modern historians.  In recent...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/05/levelling-playing-field-john-lilburne.html

  The Seneca Chief, a newly constructed steamboat, proudly sailed at the vanguard of a large procession of steamers and cargo ships that had recently arrived in New York’s harbor.  Their ar...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-pure-in-heart-mormon-zionism-and.html

     BBC The coronation of the United Kingdom’s monarch took place today—you may have heard—and this edition of American Creation concerns King Charles III’s oath, which concludes...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/05/king-charles-iii-so-help-me-god.html

A short time ago I briefly engaged an author who wrote a book on Christianity and the American Founding that purported to "defend" America in a "trial" sense of the term. I only engaged him on on...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-american-and-french-revolutions.html

First off, I'd like to thank "Rational Rant " for alerting me to this. I've long known that the below mentioned Patrick Henry quotation is fake; but only recently figured out the origin. I kno...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/04/lillback-repeats-phony-quotation.html

I recently was involved in a discussion  where, alas, the name of David Barton came up. At this point, I think Barton is a distraction from the issues that interest us on religion and the Ameri...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/03/denominational-affiliation-tells-us.html

On January 21, 2021, the day after President Biden took his oath of office a newly published author, Lindsay Chervinsky , posted an article with the title, Most Republican Lawmakers Have Failed J...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-president-who-broke-with-tradition.html

Writing at the Washington Post , Jennifer Rubin has an article entitled, "Think America Is A ‘Christian Nation’? George Washington Didn’t."  I saw this from Dean Paul Caron's site . Quot...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2023/02/rubin-on-george-washingtons-approach-to.html

If it's fair to even call it "communion." If we want to understand the political theology of the American founding and its attendant religious liberty and establishment issues, we need to under...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/12/samuel-seabury-leverages-church-of.html

 This is another post of mine from 2008  on John Adams' response to one Jedidiah Morse on the concept  of Unitarianism. Adams was a fervent theological unitarian who militantly and bitterly ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/11/john-adams-fu-letter-to-jedidiah-morse.html

I wrote this in 2008 . It's not bad. Though, I think I could have written a stronger piece. The point I take from intensely studying George Washington's personal and political theology is that, ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/11/revisiting-george-washington-and.html

 FROM “DEBUNKING HOWARD ZINN: EXPOSING THE FAKE HISTORY THAT TURNED A GENERATION AGAINST AMERICA ” BY MARY GRABAR . THIS EXCERPT ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT THE COLLEGE FIX  AND IS REPRINTED ...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-howard-zinn-hijacked-history-and.html

This is is very thorough and well argued article from a brilliant young scholar, Gordon Dakota Arnold. He sympathizes with the perspective of more accommodation of traditional, conservative Chri...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/10/arnolds-article-on-james-madison-anti.html

In 2022 .  Dr. Peter Lillback, President of Westminster Theological Seminary has done some legitimate scholarly work on the history of theology. I've criticized his 1200 page book that purpo...

http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2022/09/lillbacks-repeats-phony-quotation.html