Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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1 Corinthians 14:33:
For God is not a God of disorder but of peace – as in all the congregations of the Lord's people.
(NIV)
For He [Who is the source of their prophesying] is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order. As [is the practice] in all the churches of the saints (God's people),
(AMP)
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(KJV)
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