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==Tocqueville on Christianity==

==Tocqueville on Christianity==

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-16&view=View</ref>

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-16&view=View</ref>

{{cquote|'''Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention ....  In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united. Freedom sees religion as the companion of its struggles and triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its rights.'''}}

{{cquote|'''Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention ....  In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united. Freedom sees religion as the companion of its struggles and triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its rights.'''}}

De Tocqueville further wrote:  

De Tocqueville further wrote:  

{{cquote|The Americans combine the notions of [[Christianity]] and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other ....  They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. }}

{{cquote|The Americans combine the notions of [[Christianity]] and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other ....  They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. }}

He published a second volume of ''Democracy in America'' in 1840, in which he described:  

He published a second volume of ''Democracy in America'' in 1840, in which he described:  

{{cquote|Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America ...  In the United States ... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.}}

{{cquote|Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America ...  In the United States ... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.}}