{"id":3263,"date":"2012-10-06T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:45:02","slug":"founding-spiritual-principles-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Founding Spiritual Principles of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so sick of the political circus.\u00a0 Needing something to nurture my soul, I started rereading Marianne Williamson\u2019s Healing the Soul of America<\/a>.\u00a0 Had the experience, often found on rereading, of being surprised \u2014 surprised by what she says about the spiritual principles our country was founded on.\u00a0 \u201cAll men are created equal\u201d was a new idea coming out of the Enlightenment<\/a>.\u00a0 We have steadily expanded \u201call men\u201d to include more and more people, though it\u2019s still not fully true.\u00a0 Maybe some day it will be revised to \u201call sentient beings are created equal.\u201d\u00a0 She states the principles as:<\/p>\n

1. EQUALITY OF RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITY: That all of us are equal before God and should be treated that way by the American government.
\n2. E PLURIBUS UNUM: That within our diversity lies a national unity \u2014 that we are at the same time a people who reflect and embody diversity, yet are united in our fealty to these treasured first principles.
\n3. BALANCE OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND PROTECTION OF THE COMMON GOOD:\u00a0 That it is the responsibility of government to protect the general welfare, yet with enough checks and balances to ensure that it remains limited enough to guarantee our individual liberties.
\n4. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: That every American shall worship how her or she wishes, if he or she wishes, according to the individual\u2019s own conscience and with no governmental interference in that right.<\/p>\n

These are found in Chapter 2: Dreams and Principles in Marianne Williamson’s Healing the Soul of America; ReclaimingOur Voices as Spiritual Citizens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so sick of the political circus.\u00a0 Needing something to nurture my soul, I started rereading Marianne Williamson\u2019s Healing the Soul of America.\u00a0 Had the experience, often found on rereading, of being surprised \u2014 surprised by what she says … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-interesting-link","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}