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Translation: If your family has been in the U.S. for generations, it doesn’t matter whether you accept or reject America’s creedal principles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Our creedal nation, Stirewalt says, “requires written words and a common culture in which to understand them.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

Your parents are already aware that you don’t share their creedal convictions.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

Fukuyama concedes that people need a sense of national identity, whether ethnic or creedal, but otherwise he remains an assimilationist and a universalist.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

While the Unitarian body thus retained its use of the Christian name and its insistence upon loyalty to the teachings of Jesus, yet it put aside every form of dogmatic test and of creedal statement.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis