【正文】 t even apply for I wonder if that means that I39。第一篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇Truth_and_Tolerance_in_America美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇: “Truth and Tolerance in America”Edward Faith, Truth and Tolerance in , a number of people in Washington were surprised that I was invited to speak hereand even more surprised when I accepted the seem to think that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a Kennedy to e to the campus of Liberty Baptist honor of our meeting, I have asked , as your Chancellor, to permit all the students an extra hour next Saturday night before in return, I have promised to watch the Old Time Gospel Hour next Sunday realize that my visit may be a little as many of you have heard, recently sent me a membership in the Moral Majorityand I didn39。m a member in good standing.[Falwell: Somewhat] Somewhat, he is, of course, a nonpolitical speech which is probably best under the I am not a candidate for President, it would certainly be inappropriate to ask for your support in this election and probably inaccurate to thank you for it in the last have e here to discuss my beliefs about faith and country, tolerance and truth in know we begin with certain disagreements。as fellow human第二篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇Truth_and_Tolerance_in_America美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇: “Truth and Tolerance in America”Edward Faith, Truth and Tolerance in America [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] Thank you very much Professor Kombay for that generous let me say, that I never expected to hear such kind words from in return, I have an invitation of my January 20th, 1985, I hope will say a prayer at the inauguration of the next Democratic President of the United , , I’m not exactly sure how you feel about might not appreciate the President, but the Democrats certainly would appreciate the , a number of people in Washington were surprised that I was invited to speak hereand even more surprised when I accepted the seem to think that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a Kennedy to e to the campus of Liberty Baptist honor of our meeting, I have asked , as your Chancellor, to permit all the students an extra hour next Saturday night before in return, I have promised to watch the Old Time Gospel Hour next Sunday realize that my visit may be a little as many of you have heard, recently sent me a membership in the Moral Majorityand I didn39。t even apply for I wonder if that means that I39。I strongly suspect that at the end of the evening some of our disagreements will I also hope that tonight and in the months and years ahead, we will always respect the right of others to differ, that we will never lose sight of our own fallibility, that we will view ourselves with a sense of perspective and a sense of all, in the New Testament, even the Disciples had to be taught to look first to the beam in their own eyes, and only then to the mote in their neighbor’s am mindful of that am an American and a Catholic。as fellow citizens, let us live peaceable with each other。m a member in good standing.[Falwell: Somewhat] Somewhat, he is, of course, a nonpolitical speech which is probably best under the I am not a candidate for President, it would certainly be inappropriate to ask for your support in this election and probably inaccurate to thank you for it in the last have e here to discuss my beliefs about faith and country, tolerance and truth in know we begin with certain disagreements。I love my country and treasure my I do not assume that my conception of patriotism or policy is invariably correct, or that my convictions about religion should mand any greater respect than any other faith in this pluralistic believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly on it? There are those who do, and their own words testify to their example, because the Moral Majority has worked with members of different denominations, one fundamentalist group has denounced for hastening the ecumenical church and for “yoking together with Roman Catholics, Mormons, and others.” I am relieved that does not regard that as a sin, and on this issue, he himself has bee the target of narrow people agree on public policy, they ought to be able to work together, even while they worship in diverse truly we are all yoked together as Americans, and the yoke is the happy one of individual freedom and mutual in saying that, we cannot and should not turn aside from a deeper and more pressing questionwhich is whether and how religion should influence generation ago, a presidential candidate had to prove his independence of undue religious influence in public life, and he had to do so partly at the insistence of evangelical Kennedy said at that time: “I believe in an America where there is no religious bloc voting of any kind.” Only twenty years later, another candidate was appealing to a[n] evangelical meeting as a religious Reagan said to 15 thousand evangelicals at the Roundtable in Dallas: “ I know that you can’t endorse want you to know I endorse you and what you are doing.”To many Americans, that pledge was a sign and a symbol of a dangerous breakdown in the separation of church and this principle, as vital as it is, is not a simplistic and rigid of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political challenge today is to recall the origin of the principle, to define its purpose, and refine its application to the politics of the founders of our nation had long and bitter experience with the state, as both the agent and the adversary of particular religious colonial Maryland, Catholics paid a double land tax, and in Pennsylvania they had to list their names on a public rollan ominous precursor of the first Nazi laws against the Jews in turn faced discrimination in all of the thirteen original exiled Roger Williams and his congregation for contending that civil gove