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This video may be directly downloaded here.What is the Black Robed Regiment?
A Brief History by David Barton
The Black Robed Regiment was the name that the British placed on the courageous and patriotic American clergy during the Founding Era (a backhanded reference to the black robes they wore). [1] Significantly, the British blamed the Black Regiment for American Independence, [2] and rightfully so, for modern historians have documented that:
There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy before 1763. [3]
It is strange to today's generation to think that the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence were nothing more than a listing of sermon topics that had been preached from the pulpit in the two decades leading up to the American Revolution, but such was the case.
But it was not just the British ... (continue reading about the Original Black Robed Regiment...)
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Historical Sermons
Black Robed Preachers from the Founding Era covered current issues of the day from a Biblical perspective. View a number of the different sermons preached on topics that we rarely see covered today ...
♦ An Election Sermon - New Hampshire, 1792
♦ A Sermon on the Moral View of Rail Roads - Ohio, 1851
♦ A Sermon on Christian Patriotism - Boston, 1840
♦ An Election Sermon - Massachusetts, 1814
♦ An Execution Sermon - Hartford, 1797
♦ Others
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Contemporary Sermons for Modern Issues
Life Economics Civil Government Morality Education Muslim Religion American History Environment Military/War Civic Involvement Evolution/Creation Work Ethic Culture Family Worldview
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May 2, 2013Leo Johnson, a black man, has never received an apology from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Not a word. Which is passing strange for a group that proclaims itself to be "a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society."
