Religious Freedom Day
From The WallBuilders, here is another article on religious freedom that our Founding Fathers regarded as absolutely vital to the health and prosperity of the United States. Please read about our now disregarded Religious Freedom Day. Religious Freedom Day Religious Freedom Day is celebrated in America each year on January 16, the date of the 1786 passage of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. Thomas Jefferson was one of America's strongest voices in support of public religious expressions and religious freedom, but today has been transformed by the media and ill-informed or ill-intentioned academics into someone who was hostile to public religious expressions. But the truth is just the opposite. Jefferson's documented record is that he openly promoted the use of the Bible in schools, religious meetings in public buildings, and the study of the Bible for all Americans. As he told a noted...