American Religious History Week - Official American Holiday

[Troy Spiral (13)]

On December 18, 2007, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced H. Res. 888, a resolution "Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as 'American Religious History Week' for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith."

Full Resolution:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.RES.888:

Its surprisingly readable compared to most resolutions. Basically saying "lets designate a week where we talk about Christianity as it relates to American history" if you read the bill itself. It could be argued that its not meant that way, but its clear from the text what the intent is.

I'm all for more education about religion and the history of religion, hell its one of my favorite subjects. But not like this and not as an officially sponsored government activity.

Somehow this one flew under the news radar when it was introduced late last year. I'm not a political junkie but i do keep up with the mainstream news at least somewhat (Mostly NPR/WJR/Local) and i haven't heard a peep about this. I did some reading and its commented on several places how this was strangely not covered very much (if at all). I've found a ton of articles online about it, but had a hell of a time finding any articles in support of it.

This is pretty huge if it goes anywhere.

Article Against

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/4/...k_Out_H_Res_888

Random guy on YouTube video:

Article In Favor:

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If anyone finds any articles in favor of this thing, lemme see. I cant seem to find any that aren't very poorly laid out. I spent the last hour looking.

[ttogreh]

Resolved, That the United States House of Representatives----

(1) affirms the rich spiritual and diverse religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history, including up to the current day;

(2) recognizes that the religious foundations of faith on which America was built are critical underpinnings of our Nation's most valuable institutions and form the inseparable foundation for America's representative processes, legal systems, and societal structures;

(3) rejects, in the strongest possible terms, any effort to remove, obscure, or purposely omit such history from our Nation's public buildings and educational resources; and

(4) expresses support for designation of a `American Religious History Week' every year for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith.

It affirms that we are a nation of diverse and rich spiritual history, recognizes that many of our founders had deep religious conviction, rejects the idea of obscuring things like "In God We Trust" on our money or the Ten Commandments in our Supreme Court, and provides support, but does not mandate, the designation of American Religious History Week.

It is a toothless bill that at worst wastes a few dollars and a few hours of our time.

It's unremarkable.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

and makes it a tad harder for revisionists to wipe religion out of our history.

[Steven]

and makes it a tad harder for revisionists to wipe religion out of our history.

bingo. in time they'll win though.