{"id":1940724,"date":"2023-05-30T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-have-done-the-most-to-promote-liberty-and-equality-in-america\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:17:00","slug":"christians-have-done-the-most-to-promote-liberty-and-equality-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-have-done-the-most-to-promote-liberty-and-equality-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians promoted liberty and equality in America the most."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristians-have-done-the-most-to-promote-liberty-and-equality-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"title\">Christianity: A Positive Force for Liberty and Equality<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Despite being a popular critique of Christianity in America, the idea that Christianity has been a bastion of oppression and intolerance is inaccurate and often ignorant. In his new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Proclaim-Liberty-Throughout-All-Land\/dp\/1637587236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land<\/em><\/a>, historian Mark David Hall offers a concise corrective to this flawed narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Far from being agents of oppression and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parent-group-fights-asian-discrimination-at-nations-top-high-school\/\" title=\"Parent Group Fights Asian Discrimination At Nation\u2019s Top High School\">anti-intellectualism<\/a>, Christians have been the bedrock of social activism advancing liberty and equality, as well as promoting education reform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/city-run-by-democrats-for-60-straight-years-ranked-worst-place-to-raise-family\/\" title=\"City Run by Democrats for 60 Straight Years Ranked Worst Place To Raise Family\">increasing literacy<\/a>, and publishing newspapers and magazines. This hostility and mockery towards Christianity are unwarranted and are one of the pillars of the current anti-American ideology that permeates universities and the governing spirit of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-slams-youtube-google-for-pulling-fla-covid-19-video\/\" title=\"Gov. DeSantis slams YouTube, Google for pulling Fla. COVID-19 video\">ruling elite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is simply false to claim that liberty and equality have been advanced primarily when America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-have-done-the-most-to-promote-liberty-and-equality-in-america\/\" title=\"Christians promoted liberty and equality in America the most.\">leaders embrace progressive manifestations<\/a> of religion or reject faith altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking at the Puritans, the American Revolution, evangelical social reform prior to the Civil War, and contemporary debates over religious liberty, Hall reveals what used to be well-known: Christianity has been the heart of true social progress and explosive advancements in human liberty, equality, and democratic government.<\/p>\n<h2>Puritans and Foundations of Liberty<\/h2>\n<p>The Puritans were among the most educated people of their time, established our most venerable institutions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">higher education<\/a>, promoted the advancement and discoveries of Enlightenment science, vigorously advocated for public literacy, and enjoyed a good laugh, beer, and sex. They created political institutions that were more democratic than any the world had ever seen, and they strictly limited civil leaders by law.<\/p>\n<p>When traveling through the lands the Puritans helped to build in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville remarked, \u201cPuritanism was not merely a religious doctrine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>critique of Christianity, a common but uneducated view in America is that it has been oppressive and intolerant. This belief, popularized on social media, suggests that progress towards liberty and equality has only been possible when American leaders have rejected Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":1940725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5374,7072,11021,7703,4244,6765],"class_list":["post-1940724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-america","tag-christians","tag-equality","tag-liberty","tag-most","tag-promoted"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}