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1、The profound impact of Christianity on the United States I. Introduction1.1 Definition of Values Beliefs are important and are usually shared by a nation about what is good or desirable and what is not. Values of a nation have a major influence on the behavior of an individual and serve as main guid
2、elines in all situations.1.2 Definition of AmericansWhat is an American? An American can be English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Greek, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan. Americans are a mix of all countries from all over the wor
3、ld. Thats why its sometimes called the melting pot, a mix of all cultures. An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God-given rights of each man and woman to life, liber
4、ty and the pursuit of happiness. An American is free to criticize his governments officials when they are wrong. Americans welcome people from all lands, all cultures, because they are not afraid. They are not afraid that their history, nor their beliefs, will be overrun or forgotten. That is becaus
5、e they are free to hold to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as they each choose. Americans welcome the best, but they also welcome the worst. America welcomes all you tired and you poor, all the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless and tempest tossed.1.3 American Core Va
6、luesWhat are the values that they have most fought for and admire most? The first, and most important, that should come to mind, is freedom. Others are equality, democracy, helping of the oppressed and defense against tyranny. Some of the other values are ingrained in their history and their beliefs
7、 are capitalism, independence, strength, rightness and righteousness, manifest destiny, God and freedom of religion, family, wealth and faith. . Statistical Figures of ChristianAccording to the statistics of the Gallup Center and many other authoritative organizations, 9 in every 10 people in the Un
8、ited States are claiming to believe in God, there are eight believing that Christianity is very important for their lives, there are seven belonging to a Christian organization, there are about six adhering to the prayer every day, there are five believing that God is the strength of American democr
9、acy and moral guidance and there are four people who will go to church once a week. In the United States, there are more than 30 million different church styles. Each year in America there are 400 million people attending events such as football, baseball, basketball, tennis, car racing and other sp
10、orts competitions, while the believers participating in church activities are as high as 5.2 billion. Americans spent about $ 5 billion on sports a year while they spend more than 500 billion U.S. dollars on the church. The U.S. national anthem has the words “God Bless America”. There also are peopl
11、e from the churches that are full-time and part-time volunteers for hospitals, prisons, airports, etc. Today there are more than 1,200 Christian radio stations playing a variety of religious songs in The United States. Out of all the countries in the world, Americans are the only ones who printed “I
12、n God We Trust” on their money. The U.S. presidents speeches will include “May God Bless America” at the end. If a presidential candidate does not believe in God, it is unlikely that he/she is to be elected president for there will be 60 percent of voters opposing him/her.III. Reasons that Americans
13、 Trust the ChristianIn my opinion, there are several reasons why and are as followings.First, the United States has the main concentration of the Jews. The history of the Jews in the United States (United States of America), has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times. Until t
14、he 1830s the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina was the most numerous in North America. With the large scale immigration of Jews from Germany in the 19th century, they established themselves in many small towns and cities. A much larger immigration of Eastern European Jews, 18801914, bro
15、ught a large, poor, traditional element to New York City. Refugees arrived from Europe after World War II, and many arrived from the Soviet Union after 1970. America and its culture developed as an easy-to-enter “Melting Pot for many cultures, creating a new commonality of culture and political valu
16、es. This open culture allowed many minority groups, including Jews, to flourish in Christian and predominantly Protestant America.Second, science cannot prove whether God exists or not. “I have no need for that hypothesis,” Pierre-Simon Laplace famously responded when asked where God fit into his ne
17、w astronomical theory. Using calculus and Newtons laws of gravity, he explained the forces that kept the planets from gradually drifting out of orbit, imparting some stability to the solar system. Newton had thought the Great Engineer must step in now and then to readjust the machine. The theory did
18、nt explain where the solar system came from. But Laplace also had an answer. The planets, he proposed, had congealed from a swirling cloud of gas and dust surrounding the sun. So where did the sun and the mother cloud come from? And what set the whole thing revolving?By now, scientists think they ha
19、ve even those answers, and they do not involve the intervention of any Great Engineer. The whole point of science for the last few hundred years has been to explain everything in terms of a physical process, something that can be described by equations. The quest, however, is far from done. God, for
20、 those who want to use that term, can be invoked to account for phenomena that have not yet yielded to the scientific method. What is for some the ultimate question - Does God exist? - has become a matter of how much further the domain of the unknown will continue to contract, and if it will ultimat
21、ely evaporate. The momentum has been in that direction. The whirlpool of cosmic stuff that spawned the solar system spins because it is one small part of the great rotating galaxy, the Milky Way. When a random fluctuation causes enough gas and dust to bunch together, gravity takes over and celestial
22、 bodies begin to form. If you want to know where the galaxies came from, there are answers as well. Ultimately, it all comes down to the Big Bang Theory. That is where the chain of reasoning bottoms out. What caused the primordial explosion? At this point all but a few scientists go with Wittgenstei
23、n (“of what we cannot speak we must pass over in silence) or with Kierkegaard, blindly taking the leap of faith into the abyss of the unknown, choosing what to believe.Third, Christian culture is the mainstream of American culture. Why the religion has a wild influence on the United States? This is
24、not an occasional phenomenon. In fact, it has relations with the America history. In the 17th century, when the first puritans arrived at the new continent, they did not come to America for wealth but for the freedom of beliefs without being disturbed by Europe governments, which had a great influen
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