President Obama SwornIn

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President Obama Sworn-In

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• I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
  faithfully execute the Office of President of the
  United States, and will to the best of my
  ability, preserve, protect and defend the
  Constitution of the United States. Art. 2 Section
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Protestantism

• It is thought to have begun in 1517 with Martin
  Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and may be considered
  to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in
  1648.The movement began as an attempt to reform
  the Catholic Church. Many western Catholics were
  troubled by what they saw as false doctrines and
  malpractices within the Church, particularly
  involving the teaching and sale of indulgences
  (it is the full or partial remission of temporal
  punishment due for sins which have already been
  forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the church
  after the sinner has confessed and received
  absolution ). Another major contention was the
  practice of buying and selling church positions
  (simony, sale of spiritual authority the sale of
  tithes, the taking of a fee for confession,
  absolution, marriage or burial, and the
  concealment of one in mortal sin or the
  reconcilement of an impenitent for the sake of
  gain ) and what was seen at the time as
  considerable corruption within the Church's
  hierarchy. This corruption was seen by many at
  the time as systemic, even reaching the position
  of the Pope.

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Puritanism

• A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an
  associate of any number of religious groups
  advocating for more "purity" of worship and
  doctrine, as well as personal and group piety.
  Puritans felt that the English Reformation had
  not gone far enough, and that the Church of
  England was tolerant of practices which they
  associated with the Church of Rome. The Puritans
  sometimes cooperated with presbyterians, who put
  forth a number of proposals for "further
  reformation" in order to keep the Church of
  England more closely in line with the Reformed
  Churches on the Continent.
• The central tenet of Puritanism was God's supreme
  authority over human affairs, particularly in the
  church, and especially as expressed in the Bible.
  This view led them to seek both individual and
  corporate conformance to the teaching of the
  Bible. It led them to pursue both moral purity
  down to the smallest detail as well as
  ecclesiastical purity to the highest level.

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Covenant TheologyThe Call of Abram (Genesis
123)

• 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out
  of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
  thy father's house, unto a land that I will show
  thee   2 And I will make of thee a great nation,
  and I will bless thee, and make thy name great
  and thou shalt be a blessing   3 And I will
  bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
  curseth thee and in thee shall all families of
  the earth be blessed.

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Covenant Theology

• This model of social organization was applied by
  the Puritans to all manner of human associations.
  Under the image of the covenant, the church was
  redefined rather than an institution with
  authority in a particular geographic area, it was
  seen as a community of the elect, a gathering of
  those who received the promise of eternal
  salvation in eternal salvation in exchange for
  accepting a mission to act as Gods agents in
  this world. In crossing the Atlantic, the
  Puritans envisioned themselves as a latter-day
  people of Israel, re-creating the Hebrew covenant
  in their pilgrimage to the New World.

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Mayflower Compact

• In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are
  underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread
  Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of
  Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender
  of the Faith, etc.
• Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and
  advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of
  our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First
  Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by
  these presents solemnly and mutually in the
  presence of God and one of another, Covenant and
  Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body
  Politic, for our better ordering and preservation
  and furtherance of the ends aforesaid and by
  virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such
  just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts,
  Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as
  shall be thought most meet and convenient for the
  general good of the Colony, unto which we promise
  all due submission and obedience. In witness
  whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at
  Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of
  the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of
  England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and
  of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.

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Declaration of Independence 4/7/1776

• When in the Course of human events it becomes
  necessary for one people to dissolve the
  political bands which have connected them with
  another and to assume among the powers of the
  earth, the separate and equal station to which
  the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
  them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
  requires that they should declare the causes
  which impel them to the separation.

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The Constitution of the United States of America

• We the people of the United States, in order to
  form a more perfect union, establish justice,
  insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
  common defense, promote the general welfare, and
  secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
  our posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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Religious identification in the US
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Religious identification in Turkey