Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The two, establishment of religion and free exercise come first which is why religious freedom is often called americas first freedom. And establishment actually comes even before religious freedom. It often people understand what establishment is. Now, in 1833, massachusetts disestablished, and what that means is people no longer had to pay taxes to support my own religious ancestors, the congregationalists. Former religion come everybody sitting like this. There is a liturgy, when you rather go to a camp meeting and sang . So that is the end of establishment in that sense. It is not, as we will see this evening, the end of issues about establishment. Similarly, free exercise of religion is difficult for people to unde
Now, i have taught religion in america for more than 35 years. And i believe that the First Amendment has played a vital role in the vitality of this nation. And i shall read it for you. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The establishment of religion and freedom of exercise comes first, which is why religious freedom is often called americas first freedom. Establishment actually comes even before religious freedom. Often, people dont understand what establishment is. Now, in 1833, massachusetts disestablished. And what that means is people no longer had to pay taxes to support my own religious ancestors, the congregationalists. Now, if you want to know why establishment went away, imagine how popular it was to pay taxes for somebody elses preacher. Right
Press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The establishment of religion and freedom of exercise comes first, which is why religious freedom is often called americas first freedom. Establishment actually comes even before religious freedom. Often, people dont understand what establishment is. Now, in 1833, massachusetts disestablished. And what that means is people no longer had to pay taxes to support my own religious ancestors, the congregationalists. Now, if you want to know why establishment went away, imagine how popular it was to pay taxes for somebody elses preacher. Right . That is one of the reasons it went away. But also, that is a period in American History of revivalism. People started going to camp meetings, they started whooping it up, singing songs, and they didnt like having to support these basically european style formal religion, everybody sitting like this. Theres a liturgy. Wouldnt you rather
You are watching booktv on cspan2. Host [inaudible conversations] cement welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row fest. And todays program is broadcast live on cspan2 booktv if there is time at the end of the presentation we will take questions and had to line up by the microphone so the audience can hear the questions. Keep the spirit going yearround as the subscription to the journal in for more information on of lit fest also please post to all social media. Please silence your cellphone two turn off your camera flash shed with that plea is will come pulitzer prizewinning columnist for the Chicago Tribune. [applause] district banks for coming i was telling john that i think this would be for the most interesting conversations of the weekend [applause] but before we get to that and wanted to you how i met jonathan eig we were trying to figure out to the late 80s as days southern correspondent in bad rouge louisiana and i went to the currency basement and there was an e
An suv crashed right into the museum of the wells fargo in San Francisco. Alex savidge will have more on the investigation and why police say this is no accident. You see the historic wells fargo stagecoach. That is it right next door. I know exactly where that is. Thank you for joining us, tuesday, january 27th im pam cook. Good morning, im dave clark. Lets talk about your weather and traffic this morning. Steve paulson is ready. Knows all about our forecast and everybody else. For some its a blizzard, for others everything is being lifted. Boston, providence its a bad situation. We do have some very light rain moving up through disease, its really a weak system but there is a possibility that Santa Cruz Mountains south and east. Cloudy skies. Breezy. For some one so the south. And this will be it for january. This is our best opportunity for any rain. You can see radar return. Most of that looks to be east and there in lines the rub. There is plenty of cloud cover here. The low areas