National Religious Freedom Day 2020

My religion has evolved during my lifetime.

I suppose I began as a Baptist because my earliest memories of Sunday and church involved the Baptist faith and I consider this the result of my blessed Mother who considered her faith an important aspect of who she was and we were typically scrubbed and dressed up each Sunday for services of one kind or another ... or both.

Later we worshipped in Methodist churches and I view this primarily a function of what was near, usual, and customary in the homelands of my father but steady through it all was my mother's unwavering faith to keep us in there and trying to do the right thing.

Nowadays, I have rejected dominational religion altogether and indeed, some of the apologists like Washington Street United Methodist Church in Columbia South Carolina who embrace abomination and discard the authoritative scripture coming from the very word of God and biblical canon itself.

So now I consider myself a Christian. I do not subscribe to any denominations as they are "that which separates" theology and as such are devisive and subjects faith more and more to the traditions of men and less those communications set forth by The Almighty in the Holy Bible.

Today is National Religious Freedom Day. It is held in commemoration of the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786.

That statute became the underlying foundation for the First Amendment of the US Constitution and led to freedom of religion for all Americans citizens.

Religious Freedom Day has been officially proclaimed each January 16 since 1993 by the President of the US.
 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16 Holy Bible King James Version