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100 1  Hasson, Kevin James,|eauthor. 
245 10 Believers, thinkers, and founders :|bhow we came to be one
       nation under God|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cKevin 
       Seamus Hasson. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bOasis Audio,|c2016. 
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511 1  Read by John McLain. 
520    In Believers, Thinkers and Founders: How We Came to be One
       Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson-founder and 
       president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious 
       liberty-offers a refreshing resolution to the age-old 
       dispute surrounding the relationship of religion and state
       : a return to first principles. "The traditional position,
       " writes Hasson, "is that our fundamental human rights-
       including those secured by the First Amendment-are endowed
       to us by the Creator and that it would be perilous to 
       permit the government ever to repudiate that point." 
       America has steadfastly taken the position that there is a
       Supreme Being who is the source of our rights and the 
       author of our equality. It has repeated that point for 
       well over two hundred years throughout all branches and 
       levels of government. Never mind, says the secularist 
       challenge. God is, to put it mildly, religious. Religion 
       has no place in Government. So God has no place in 
       Government. It's just that simple. But for the government 
       to say there is no creator who endows us with rights, 
       Hasson argues, "is to do more than simply tinker with one 
       of the most famous one-liners in history; it is to change 
       the starting point of our whole explanation of who we are 
       as Americans." He proposes a solution straight from the 
       founding: the government acknowledges the existence of God
       who is the source of our rights philosophically but not 
       religiously. This idea of the "Philosophers' God" is a 
       conception of God based not on faith but on reason. Hasson
       suggests that by recognizing the distinction between the 
       creator of the Declaration of Independence and the God of 
       our faith traditions, we may be able to move past the 
       culture wars over religion that have plagued the country. 
       In Believers, Thinkers, and Founders, Hasson examines the 
       idea of the "Philosophers' God" while looking at a host of
       issues-including the Pledge of Allegiance, prayer at 
       public events, and prayer in public schools-as he 
       demonstrates how we can still be one nation under God. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Church and state|zUnited States. 
650  0 Freedom of religion|zUnited States. 
650  0 Christianity and politics|zUnited States. 
650  0 Liberty|xReligious aspects|xChristianity. 
650  0 Christianity and justice|zUnited States. 
650  0 Religion and politics|zUnited States. 
700 1  Mclain, John. 
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