Pennsylvania and New York, at the time of Independence, both lacked established churches, whereas Virginia had an established church. ... Section 16 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights stated, "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Though the declaration also describes a "mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other," the very language of the 1776 document is important. ... Public opinion may have mostly leaned toward religious liberty, but the opinions of important men of politics...

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Although Kil was wary about applying Christian doctrine to politics, he nonetheless participated in the March 1st independence movement of 1919 against the Japanese and faced two and a half years of jail time as a result of this participation. ... Even though this teaching at its core was an apolitical form of escapism, it likely contributed as a political ideology for independence fighters who now had a source of belief that another world was possible. Part 2 Birth- Indigenous Seeds Ham Seokheon, like Kil Seonju, participated in the March 1st 1919 Independence Movement although he was onl...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of its homeland. Korea's indigenous religion, like that of most early cultures, was a form of...

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