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In Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Had become One Region Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson - creator and president emeritus of the Becket Finance for Spiritual Liberty - offers a refreshing resolution to a familiar conundrum: When there is real religious freedom in America, how is it that our authorities helps to keep invoking God? He's all over, from our money to the Pledge of Allegiance. Isn't that all entirely too religious? And just whose God are we discussing, anyhow? If we are intellectually honest, shouldn't we scrub each one of these referrals to God from our open public life? The Declaration of Independence says that God is the source of our protection under the law. "The traditional position," creates Hasson, "is that our fundamental human protection under the law - including those guaranteed by the First Amendment - are endowed to us by the Creator and that it would be perilous allowing the government ever to repudiate that point." America has steadfastly repeated that for more than 200 years, throughout all branches and degrees of government. To say that there surely is no Creator who endows us with protection under the law, Hasson argues, "is to do more than simply tinker with one of the most famous one-liners ever sold; it is to change the starting place of our complete explanation of who we live as Us citizens and, in the long run, why our authorities is a restricted one to begin with." How to proceed? Hasson looks closely at the nation's founding and considers a solution in the traditional distinction between trust and reason. The lifetime of God, he points out, can typically be known by reason alone while who God is is seen only by trust. By recognizing the distinction between your "self-evident" Creator referred to in the Declaration of Independence and God as discovered in our trust practices, we can move forward from the culture wars that plague us. In short, Hasson argues, we can have a sturdy First Amendment without abandoning our natural protection under the law. In Believers, Thinkers, and Founders, Hasson examines that idea while looking at a bunch of issues - like the Pledge of Allegiance, prayer at open public occasions, and the Declaration of Independence - as he shows how exactly we can be one region under God.
