How Did We Arrive Here? A Philosophical and Historical Journey Toward Dechurching
As In Heaven
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The Secularization of the United States
The Constitution is the watershed document into secularization in the West, he says. Even those who would have been Unitarian or deist had an understanding that basic aspects of morality were simply taken for granted by Americans at the time. Jefferson believed that there would be a time in the near future where belief in the Trinity would simply evaporate. But I don't think he could have foreseen the way that would be detached from certain moral assumptions and from community norms.
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