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India Press Store - Rediscovering God in America
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Manufacturer: Citizen's United
Starring: Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0686506307494
Format: Color
Label: Citizen's United
Manufacturer: Citizen's United
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Citizen's United
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-11-27
Running Time: 55
Studio: Citizen's United
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Summary: movie
Comment: Rediscovering God in America is a well done documentary of our nation's buildings in DC, and the founding father's papers showing intent that America be a God fearing nation, yet have a separation of Church and state. All historians in this film do an excellent job. It is appropriate for children (above age 5 or 6) and adults. It's a must view before one visits Washington, DC.
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Summary: Seeeeee, I told you so...
Comment: The internet seems to kill the idea of the vast number of religious symbols that exist in our nation's capital, even snopes. This DVD takes you on a great tour and shows you just how many there are.
Great commentary continues through out the DVD.
My copy doesn't always play though, I should return it. Calista's dress and pearls need to go too.
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Summary: Rediscovering God in America
Comment: I was hoping for a better product. Moved really slow and was boring. I saw Newt give a talk on PBS channel on rediscovering god in america that really inspired me to buy the video. It was a big disappointment. I wish I could buy his speech off PBS, it was great.
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Summary: Great book and video
Comment: This is an excellent book for anyone that loves this country. I found my faith reaffirmed that there was a divine hand in the founding of this great nation. Our founding fathers were truly inspired in establishing our country. Their founding values have been forgotten or ignored by too many Americans.
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Summary: Provides much-needed balance in the debate on "separation of church and state."
Comment: This brief documentary offers a reminder of the vital interplay between religion and government down through our nation's history, with a particular emphasis on the Founders, such as Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, among many others. It examines the ample historical evidence of the often intense religiosity of these elder statesmen and their views on the role of religion in public life. These views found expression in our main governmental institutions, including (of all places) the Supreme Court. The conclusion is very different from what one would expect in light of the last few decades of open hostility to religion in the public square.
In my opinion, the single greatest contribution of this video (and the accompanying book) is to take up afresh the evidence of the Founders' intent behind the separation doctrine. One of the most mischaracterized documents in that debate is Jefferson's famous letter to the Danbury Baptists, who were seeking assurance that their particular mode of observance would not be squelched. Jefferson wrote to them of the need to maintain a wall of separation between church and state as a means of safeguarding religious liberty. The evidence, however, does not in any way support the more modern argument that Jefferson was hostile to religion in general, or that he held anticlerical, deistic views. He merely advocated that clerical and governmental AUTHORITY not be permitted to overlap, so that all persons would be free to practice their religion without fear of persecution. In other words, Jefferson championed freedom of religion, not from it. Neither did he seek the complete expungement of religious observance in public life, as many today would have us believe. Atheism as a belief structure is no more or less entitled to protection, but neither may it claim supremacy over religion such that it may preclude all religious expression in public life.
By looking at the words and actions of these framers of our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, as well as numerous presidents down through the ages, it becomes clear that their understanding of the separation doctrine stands in stark contrast to the radical secularization of our society that is being foisted on the American public today. Until just the past few decades, generations of American leaders have understood that civic virtue is indispensible to the perpetuation of this nation as a free republic, and that personal virtue must precede civic virtue. For the overwhelming majority of us, personal virtue, that is, our basic morality and code of ethics, comes from religion in one form or another. While church and state as institutions were not to have control over one another, it was clearly understood and intended that they would interact with each other for their mutual benefit. Without this influence, without underlying personal and civic virtue, the future of our country is in doubt. Thus, the radical secularists, knowingly or not, are attacking the very underpinnings of our government, society and culture as a free people.
I have a couple criticisms that should be noted. First, although the subject matter of this video is important, the presentation is a little dry. The use of actors in colonial era garb does little to offset this. Second, as a number of other reviewers have mentioned, there seems to be a technical defect with the DVD that causes a broken picture in various parts. The first half to two-thirds played just fine, but the latter portion was problematic. In spite of these things, however, I would recommend either or both of this video or the corresponding book of the same title.
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