Liberty is a plant that requires constant tending. When times are hard, people tend to seek security in a more rigid identity, to redefine the past to support their position, and to see a threat in any diversity. There is a paranoid fear that a jealous tribal god will smite the nation with disaster if he is not worshipped in the same way by all. Whatever our faith may be, we cannot afford to take our freedom of worship for granted.

For the past decade, members of the religious right have been making a concerted and intentional effort to reshape America in its own image, using prayer to influence the American psyche as they manipulate politics to get their people into power, forgetting that the law that protects their faith is only strong because it protects others as well. The rights guaranteed by the First Amendment have been redefined as the right to practice their religion, speak and write their party line, and assemble to support their faith. This is the belief of a minority of Christians, but their influence has reached far.

However theirs is not the only "spiritual technology" which can be used to shape the consciousness of a nation. It is time for those of us who understand the technology of visualization and affirmation to use our skills to return this country, not to the left, but to the balanced center which allows freedom to both extremes.

This website is intended as a resource for those who would like to:

• know more about the people who founded our nation and what they intended its relationship to organized religion to be;
• reclaim our national holidays as celebrations of the principles on which this country was founded;
• invoke the spirits of those who fought for religious liberty to help us retain it.

NB: If something on the map below is not a link, that's because it's not ready yet!

• Pagan Religious Rights Rite--as enacted in Lafayette Park on 30 June, 2007 as part of the Pagan Religious Rights Rally, and simultaneously by others of like mind around the country!
• Basic Freedom Rite
• Lady Liberty Rite
• Founders' birthdays
• Presidents' Day
• Memorial Day
• Flag Day
• Independence Day
• Thanksgiving
• Samhain invocation

• The Mighty Dead—honoring the ancestors
• Church and State
• Deism, Theism and American Religion
• The Masonic Connection

• The Founding Fathers (biographies and images)
• Songs (music and words)
• Map of Washington D.C.
• Photo gallery
• Events where Founders' rites will be happening
• A Founders' pilgrimage
• Reviews:
  • The Separation of Church and State
  • The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
  • The Book of the Founding Fathers
  • Founding Mothers
• Links
• Forum

This page was last modified on Friday, 29 June, 2007 at 14:47:25.
This site and all documents copyright © 2006 Diana L. Paxson and Lorrie Wood, except where otherwise stated. All rights reserved. Gods Bless America!