Let’s enjoy English 20th

I’m going to start to express on America, being based on the book, そうだったのか！アメリカ, written by Akira Ikegami, but it was written in 2005, and was revised after that it was published in 2012, so it doesn’t always mean it’s the latest information.

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《America is the nation which is loved and hated》

Ronald Reagan who was the previous President was dead in 2004, and the whole America mourned his death and enter into grief all the day. He visited South America for the first time and after that said to the press like the next.

Though all of you may be surprised, South America is made up…

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《America is the nation which is loved and hated》

…South America is made up with separated nations.

After being inaugurated as President, George Bush met the President in Brazil and asked him, is there a black person in Brazil as well?

Though knowing nothing on the world so much, being able to be the President in America, but every time America decides something, America has influence over the whole world greatly, and sometimes lots of people were dead.

Synchronized terrorists attack broke out in America September in 2001, and lots of people were angry at it, feeling sympathy.

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《America is the nation which is loved and hated》

Lots of bunch of flowers were offered in front of the American embassies each nation in the whole world. Memorial gathering entering into grief on victims was held in Germany and France, and voice that we were all the Americans filled with the gathering.

Kennedy who was the young President in America made a speech at the balcony of the city hall in Berlin which was divided from Germany, saying I’m a resident in Berlin, encouraged the people in the West Germany. The voice were as if it had learned from the historical fact.

If other…

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《America is the nation which is loved and hated》

If other nation received the attack like that, it wouldn’t be sympathized like that. It was shown how much America was loved from other nations.

But America attacked Afghanistan as revenge and invaded into Iraq, so lots of nations had their backs to America. The nation which was loved from the whole world become the one which was avoided and was hated before we knew.

《Where is this nation in the world?》

The supersized hurricane attacked the whole southern area in America August in 2005, and caused lots of victims then. Many of…

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《Where is this nation in the world?》

Many of victims were the poor people who couldn’t escape from the hurricane because they didn’t have an automobile.

As having their escape cut off, the residents were rescued, and it was broadcast on the news by TV. All of them were black people. The situation of the black people in the south area was shown clearly by chance.

After that the people who became refugee changed into disorderly mob attacked stores like a supermarket. On the other hand, residents had a gun and a gunfight was developed between them.

Where is the story in the nation…

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《Where is this nation in the world?》

Where is the story in the nation of the world? Lots of Americans grieved over it. As if it had been the disaster in a developing countries were developed.

There is the national guard which is original the military organization of each state which suffered from damage, but lots of them were sent to Iraq, so the labor shortage, so full readiness against the disaster fell behind, being criticized from the residents who suffered from the damage.

As to the disaster linking several states, it’s the chance of the Federal Government to show off its…

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It’s the chance of the Federal government to show off its real ability, but the leadership on the Bush President who was the top of the Federal government was criticized. Is this the great power which was proud of the most powerful military power and the strongest economic power in the world?

《America is a mysterious nation.》

America is a mysterious nation. Lots of people in the world have been attracted from America, from the people in America, from American. American culture has had great influence over the whole world.

But it is fact that there are people who have thought…

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《America is a mysterious nation》

But it is fact that there are people who have thought the influence was the invasion by America, the erosion from America.

A journalist has pointed out foreign people have an image against America like the next.

1 American is bigotry and self-centered.

2 Americans is rich and exciting.

3 America is the nation of freedom.

4 America is an empire which is hypocritical and oppressive.

5 The Americans are naive.

6 The Americans are vulgar people.

7 America is the nation of which chance is equal to all the nations.

8 The democracy in America is…

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8 The democracy in America is self satisfied.

9 America is the shape in the world in the future.

10 Except for the benefit of its own nation, America ignores everything.

How many do you have something in common with America in the expression? When reading, you may have nodded one by one, the author said like that.

《America is an empire of democracy》

Though having not knowing anything on the world, America attacked Iraq, for it’s thought if Iraq was democratized, the world of the Middle East is also democratized.

There are people who hate America, but the American can’t ….

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《America is an empire of democracy》

…but the Americans can’t understand why they hate, and tried not to understand.

America is a tremendous democratic nation, but if looking from the outside, it’s also the empire in the modern era, oppressing the world with the military force, it’s the imperialism exactly, but at the same time, America is the nation of democracy. Is there existence which is contradicted like that?

After the World War Ⅱ, America showed the democracy to Japan, and there is the political system in which the number of vote obtained is less than an opposing…

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《America is an empire of democracy》

…in which even if the number of vote obtained is less than an opposing candidate, it is elected President in America.

The military force belonged to America abused the Iraqi at the prison in Iraq. How cruel they are!

On the other hand, it was whistleblowed and was reported widely by media, so there is the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press in America.

The Americans are picky about the health problem, on the other hand, there is hardly regulation on the gun, and lots of children are victims by the gun every year.

When America had…

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When America had a bad reputation because of the President Bush, the people in America made the President who was a black person be born in the next time. How dynamic they are! for there is America there which we know and we don’t know.

《America is the subject for both of longing and resistance》

America pushed forward to the Vietnamese War in 1970s, the demonstration on anti America opposing to the war was unfolded in Japan and in Europe then.

Students who took part in the demonstration wore a pair of jeans made in America which we the Japanese admire.

Though shouting go home…

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《America is the subject for both of longing and resistance》

Though shouting to go home, yankee, we the Japanese longed for America. After the democracy was over, we used to look forward to drinking the Coca Cola. Lots of the young Japanese love America and hate very much then.

We the Japanese have the longing and resistance against America, America has made us feel ambivalent like that.

America is the nation of freedom. When comparing America with Japan, the head of research institute of the economic strategy said like the next.

Everything is forbidden in Japan otherwise it’s…

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《America is the subject for both longing and resistance》

Everything is forbidden in Japan otherwise it isn’t permitted especially, on the other hand, everything is allowed in America otherwise it isn’t forbidden especially.

The author said looking at America from various points of view and analyzed them, and this book has been completed. As if the author had Adopted the stipple 点描法 on the Impressionism, he used colorful painting in every detail and the side of America, and aimed at expressing the whole image on America. Has the author accomplished his aim? He said readers to…

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The author said readers judge whether or not he could accomplish his aim after reading, and if the image on America changes even a little, he is very happy, he said like that.

After reading, what will think of America?

【America is a religious nation】

《America which started everything from the Bible》

The inauguration ceremony on the President was done in America January in 2005, and the President Bush put his hand on the Bible and raised his hand, taking on oath. The inauguration ceremony is sure to be done every four year, and we can see the scene.

Then Mr.Bush said, help me…

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【America is religious nation】

《America which starts everything from the Bible》

Then the Bush President said help me God, asking the God for divine protection, but it doesn’t limited to the inauguration ceremony on the President alone. All the judges in the Supreme Court gather at Church in Washington autumn every four year, and the mass is done, praying for the divine protection so as that the judges can carry out the right trial then.

The Bible appears every scene, and the name on the God is praised, for America is a religious nation.

When moving to America and got its nationality…

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

…the one takes an oath for being an America, abandoning the loyalty in the nation which the one belonged to until then, and taking an oath for accomplish its duty and responsibility as the nation in America, and the sentence on the oath ends with the phrase, help me for the divine protection.

The sentence assumes it’s natural that the one who is the American believes in the God and offers the prayer.

In public school, standing up against the Stars and the Stripes, putting its right hand on the left breast, and….

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

…and pledging allegiance to the flag like the next.

I pledge to the flag belonged to the United States of America and the republic symbolizing it. The United States of America has freedom and justice for everyone and is the nation which no one can divide under the God.

America is the nation under the God.

It is said America has the principle of separation of church and state, but why does the God appear?

The author is going to express the relation between separation of church and state and the religious nation

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

The synchronized terrorist attack broke out September in 2001, and immediate after the Cabinet meeting on the Bush government was held. How was it done? The one who was engaged in the Secretary of Treasury in the Bush government said like the next.

As the President said the opening, all of us said a prayer in the beginning. When the President adopted the habit, lots of cabinet ministers got tired of it, but on the day we found it indispensable for the first time.

George Bush is known to be extremely religious…

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

George Bush has been known to be extremely religious Christianity among the Presidents in the successive generations, and he himself talked like the next.

I’ve gone through my life with the unwavering belief. The religious faith has made me free and when facing something difficult, it showed me the direction to go, and being based on the religious faith, I’ve carried out the thing which wasn’t popular among the others on the public opinion if I found it correct.

As I’ve had the religious faith, I could enjoy…

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

As I’ve had the religious faith, I could enjoy my life.

Other Presidents in the successive generations are equal to Mr. Bush.

Bill Clinton had an affair during the term of office as the President, and It revealed, but he said in the inauguration speech on the President like the next in 1993.

Let’s carry out good things without stopping, and without being tired of them, and making efforts, the time comes, and we can reap the harvest, quoting the phrase from the Bible, appealing to the nation he was diligent.

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

Jimmy Carter who was inaugurated as the President in 1977 was known to be a pious Christian, looking back on the time of the President, he said like the next.

I prayed more than I did in my life until then, and my prayer was hoping the God to give me a clear conscience, right judgement, and wisdom dealing with the problem which had influence over lots of people in America and other nations. I can’t insist that my decision was always right, but the prayer helped me. Praying prevented me from feeling being ….

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【America is a religious nation】

《Everything starts from the Bible in America》

The prayer prevented me from feeling being horrified, or from being in despair even if facing the responsibility which I had to accomplish everyday.

Ronald Reagan who was appointed as the candidate on the President in the Republican National Convention September in 1980 made a speech like the next.

I can’t express how wonderful the huge continent which the God create and gave us is with my own words at all.

And he made a speech again in 1987 like the next.

The God’s will have made America so as not to be the…

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【America is a religious nation】

The God’s will have made the America so as not only to for the people in America alone but for more magnificent aim. In short, protecting the freedom on the human being like the sacred fire and spread it among the others. It’s austere duty for the Americans.

America has been created by the God so as to spread the ideal all over the world.

Why does America interfere with various problems in the world? Its reason is expressed here.

《The people in America believe in the God》

The America is the religious nation, and how much do the people in America believe…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The people in America believe in the God》

How much do the people in America believe in the God?

According to the research on the company which was engaged in the public opinion, some 90% of the Americans answered they believed in the God, the ones who thought the heaven existed is 81%, and the ones who did the hell existed is 70%.

In short, lots of the people believe in the God. In the first place, America has been created by Christians.

One hundred and two of the English reached to Plymouth in Massachusetts with the ship of Mayflower August in 1620.

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【America is a religious nation】

《The people in America believe in the God》

Building the colony by England started at the current Jamestown in the Virginia State then, and the ship aimed at reaching near the place, but it was carried away by the wind, so it reached far more northern area.

Forty one people from one hundred one landed on there, and named the place where they landed on Plymouth which was the same name as the port town in England where they left.

The forty one people were dissatisfied with the Anglican Church, and as seeking for making the Anglican Church pure one, so they…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The people in America believe in the God》

…so they were called the Puritan. Once they were away from England and went to Holland, but seeking after the new life in the new ground and came to America.

The forty one people who sought after the freedom on religion called themselves Pilgrims, and they have learned to be called the fathers of building the nation, but it is reported almost half of them were dead until the next spring due to severe coldness in winter which arrived soon.

After ten years in 1630, some thousand of the Puritans landed on Boston near…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The people in America believe in the God》

…some thousand of the Puritan landed on Boston near Plymouth by ship, and then the leader called out the emigrants they had to be the town on the mountain.

The word of the town on the mountain appears in the New Testament as the phrase of Jesus. He said the town on the mountain can’t hide anywhere, so everyone can look at it from everywhere, and it means as a result, they have to build an ideal town which is all right even if being looked at from anyone.

It’s as if the enthusiasm of building the ideal nation by the…

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【America is a religious nation】

It’s as if the enthusiasm of building the ideal nation by the Christianity had reached to us. America is the nation which had built and had to be the town on the mountain.

『Column, indigenous people became extinct』

The people of the forty one who landed on from the ship of Mayflower cleared the land right away, but needless to say, the land belonged to the Native American who were the indigenous people.

But three years before they reached there, smallpox became epidemic and the indigenous people died out already, except for the one who became slave before…

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【America is a religious nation】

『Column, the indigenous people became extinct』

…except for the one who was the slave before the smallpox gained ground.

Without effort, they could win the land. The situation was expressed like the next then.

The indigenous people are about to be cleared away from this land by the smallpox which became epidemic among them as long as the range of three hundred mile. As the God showed us the right on the land clearly, some fifty of indigenous people asked to be protected,

The smallpox had never been in America until then, and the Europeans who became the…

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【America is a religious nation】

…and the European immigrants who were immune to the smallpox brought it America from Europe.

《America was a new Israel》

The sacred book for the Christians is the Old and New Testament. The new promise which was made between the people and the God is the New Testament, and before one which was done is the Old Testament.

But the Old Testament which the Christians call alone is the sacred book for the Jews.

There is the story that Mouse who received the order from the God took out the Israelis who became slave from Egypt in the Old Testament. Mouse who was…

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《America was new Israel》

Mouse who was led by the God left for Canaan given from the God which is the current Palestine, and settled in Canaan and built Israel, but on the way to Canaan, exterminated the people in Canaan who obstruct him. The tale is in the Old Testament.

The people of the Puritan who were oppressed in England departed from England to America, modeling it as the Exodus, or settling in Canaan in the Old Testament, regarding America as the land given from the God. The American continent was the new Israel for them.

So the indigenous people…

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【America is a religious nation】

《America was new Israel》

So the indigenous people who obstructed them in America overlapped the image of the people in Canaan who hindered the people who went to the Promised Land which is Canaan. When failing to make the indigenous people convert to the Christianity or the indigenous people resisted against them, they adopted the plan of destroying them completely with the armed force like the ancient Israeli did in the Old Testament.

Current America has always supported the action on the Israeli in the international society, for the Jews have had great…

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【America is a religious nation】

…for the Jew has had the great influence over the political and business world, but there is the mind of the Christians regard America as the new Israel on the bottom of their heart.

《They were fired up with the sense of clear duty from the God》

The people who regarded themselves as the ones of the people came to the promised land from Israel thought developing the promised land was the mission given from the God.

A journalist insisted on the way of thinking owning the whole land given from the God was the clear mission for them in 1845.

Thus the people…

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【America is a religious nation】

《They were fired up with the sense of clear duty given from the God》

Thus the people who were fired up with the religious ideal cleared up the American continent and thought the others who obstructed them were the ones who resisted against the mission from the God.

How much did the people who went to America had the religious zeal in the early time?

The ones who adorned except for the father in the heaven will be subject to capital punishment. It was written clearly in the beginning on the law established in the State of Connecticut in 1650 and after that…

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【America is a religious nation】

…and it is said after that the regulation which was quoted from the Old Testament as it was was listed there.

《Though the constitution has expressed the separation of church and state…》

After that, not only the people in the Puritan but except for the Christians like the ones of Anglican Church, Catholic, the Quakers, and the Calvinists settled in America, and thirteen colony formed gradually, and they were independent from England as the nation, and built allied powers.

The Puritan developed Massachusetts, the Quakers Pennsylvania, the Catholic Maryland….

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【America is a religious nation】

《Though the constitution has expressed the separation of church and state…》

…and Anglican Church Virginia. The religious sect which took the initiative was different, according to the colony, so when the thirteen colonies were united, no one could decide the specific religion was the national religion.

In addition, lots of people thought the Anglican Church was the national religion in England which were their homeland and it became degraded, so without deciding the national religion, allowed themselves to be engaged in the religious activity at will.

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【America is a religious nation】

《Though the constitution has expressed the separation of church and state…》

The constitution on the United States of America has been established in 1788, but it didn’t refer to the national religion direct, but the clause on the separation of church and state has been added to the Amendment of the Constitution after three years in 1791, and it is described clearly like the next.

First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Federal Assembly must not establish the national religion nor the law which forbids the religious free activity. We call it…

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【America is a religious nation】

We call it the separation of church and state.

《The separation of church and state has made the Christianity have the power》

The separation of church and state means the government doesn’t give a specific religious sect a favorable treatment, and at the same time, not to forbid the specific religious sect to take into action. It’s not to forbid the specific religious sect to involve in the politics, for America has been built by the Christians, so it’s natural for them the Christianity to be in politics.

The drafter on the constitution on the United States…

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【America is a relgious nation】

《The separation of church and state has made the Christiaity have the power》

The drafter on the constitution of the United States of America forbids the national religion because of limiting the power on the government,and so as to protect and to strengthen the religion.

It's not establishing the freedom from the religion but establishing the freedom on the religion, and it's effective.

under the situation in which there was no national religion, the Americans couldn't only believe in its own religion at will, but create any community and organization on ...

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【America is a religious nation】

...but create any community or any organization on the religion as they like.

Thus the Christianity which the people belived in from the beginning when America was formed spread over the whole America with strong vitality.

《The Christianity has supported the society in America》

Lots of the Americans go to church near their house every Sunday. Some of church can't accommodate all the believers at one time alone, so the worship on Sunday is doen several times.

Some 20% of the children in America receive the education in private school, and almost all of ...

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity has supported the society in America》

...and almost all of the private school has been mangaed by church, and the education is done, being based on the Christianity. In the first place, both of famous university of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have been established for the believers in church.

The wedding ceremony on the Americans is usally done in church,and when their child was born, its baptism is done at church as well. Lots of volunteer activities of which center is church are done, so the Americans lead their life, feeling the...

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity has supported the society in America》

…feeling usually the Christianity close to them.

The whole America looks like Thanksgiving day every November, and the ceremonies on the Christmas goes on December.

The Thanksgiving day is followed the story on the party of Puritan who came to America by the ship of the Mayflower. When spending the first winter in America for the first time, lots of them were dead because of food shortage and the coldness.

The others who survived held an event which was thankful for a good harvest to the God next year

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity has supported the society in America》

Then inviting the indigenous people who were friendly to them in the local place and held a luncheon, cooking a wild turkey. After that, the thought of the people in American go to the hardship on the pilgrim fathers, surrounding the dish on the turkey with family members.

George Washington proclaimed the people to do the ceremony of the Thanksgiving day in 1789, after that it has been done every year in the whole America. Every time celebrating the Thanksgiving Day, the Americans are thankful for being…

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【America is a religious nation】

…the Americans are thankful for being able to have a meal to the God and make sure again the existence on the God.

《The Christianity is the religion for residents》

Thus the teaching on the Christianity is the background of their life for the Americans who are always the Christianity together. It assumes that everyone believes the existence of the God. The God means the only God which has created this world, in short, it’s the god on the monotheism which are common to the one in the Jew, or in the Islam.

The phrase of in God we trust has been engraved on….

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity is the religion for residents》

The phrase that in God we trust has been engraved on the coin in America.

As America is a nation made up with emigrants, they don’t have any history in common, so in this situation if America has to be united they have to make sure always why America is America, and the God appears then. It means America is the nation under the God.

Thus the trust on the God is in common on the Americans, and a religious sociologist calls it the religion on the residents. It’s not the specific religion but the way of…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity is religion for residents》

It’s not the specific religion but the way of thinking on the Christianity become the religion for the American without being aware of it.

Instead of the religion for residence, a religious scholar adopted the expression of the invisible national religion, saying like the next.

Though there has never been the national religion in America, the Christianity plays a part of the national religion which has the power of uniting the people in America.

But the invisible national religion is close to the Christianity,,,

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity is the religion for residents》

…being close to the Christianity extremely, but to be exact, it’s not the Christianity, for both of the inaugural ceremony on the President or in other ceremonies, they say they believe in the God, or they hope to be given the divine protection, but didn’t say hope to be led by Christ.

Presidents in America often refer to the God, but don’t talk on the Jesus Christ in official occasion, for if talking on the Jesus Christ, it means excluding the Jew.

In short, the invisible national religion is the tradition…

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【America is a religious nation】

《The Christianity is the religion for residents》

…the invisible national religion is the tradition on the Christianity and the Jew including the people who believe in the Christianity or in the Jew.

Therefore, when making a speech, the President quoted the phrase from the Bible and it’s chosen from the Old Testament which is common to both of the religion mainly.

The religion for residents or the invisible national religion is the Christianity without Jesus Christ.

The religion for residents in America is the national religion which isn’t particular…

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【America is a religious nation】

The religion for residents in America is the national one which isn’t particular about any specific religion, and it isn’t the Christianity obviously in a definite expression, but as to its origin, contents, premise, or character, it’s the Christianity obviously.

『Column, the Christianity and the extremism on the Islam』

The phrase on the extremism on religion is often used for the extremism on the Islam, but there has been the way of calling the extremism on the Christianity originally, and if inferring from it, the way of calling is adopted to the Islam

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