BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."
JOHN ADAMS
"Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?"
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
2006-08-15 09:02:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God's country usually means the USA was found in Christ's name.
2006-08-15 09:14:36 · update #1
No, they believed in God, but they didn't believe in religion.
2006-08-15 09:16:45 · update #2
What would make me happy is if we didn't have anymore Bible-thumpers in the White House. Did you know Bush Sr. said atheists should be considered Americans? That doesn't affect me but still, a very un-American statement nonetheless. There is no one right religion, and this country is losing sight of that.
2006-08-15 09:19:51 · update #3
**crap** "George Bush Sr. said atheists shouldn't be considered Americans."
2006-08-15 09:21:23 · update #4
You are correct that many were deists --this was an 18th century development in religion that affirmed that a God existed and operated in the world but from a detached non-interventionist perspective. That is to say, God created the world, but is removed from the world, outside of the occasional miracle. This approach was product of Enlightenment rationalism.
The idea behind the founding of the United States as a place of religious freedom was to escape the persecution and intolerance that existed in England and in Europe. Many founding fathers as well as immigrants were Christian, but many were not. Supposedly all were to be free to worship as they felt right.
2006-08-15 09:17:02 · answer #1 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, all but one of our founding fathers were members of one Christian group or another. Keeping in mind that they had lived under the laws or Europe where the state told them what to believe and what church to belong to, it is no wonder that they had a problem with a state sponsored religion. They did not have a problem with God. They all believed in God and sought His divine guidance. They had no problem with the government acknowledging God's existence, as long as it didn't choose which church they should attend. We have taken this to the extreme and forbidden the government from admitting there even is a God. None of our founding fathers would have endorsed our current position on this issue.
2006-08-15 10:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice quotes. None of them denied the existence of God, but stated the limits of religion in the affairs of geverance of men, and the place reason must have in one's expression of faith. I suppose people who blindly say their country is God's country may be guilty of violating what these men said, but the fact of the matter is that every country is God's country. Some people just want to feel special, like the country music song "God Bless Texas". What about Rhode Island? California? Maryland? Did every other state NOT get blessed?
2006-08-15 09:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course non of those quotes would be out of context.
deism today is different than back then. Back then they believed in God and that He created the universe. Now they do not believe in any religion. So it would make sense that they would call it God's country back then. That was before they started to stand on their own understanding. Which the Bible tells us in Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
2006-08-15 09:22:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They weren't non-Christian, some of the the things you are using are imaginary and some taken out of context. Why would Adams say "carloads" You either copied this from someone else or made it up, because if you will research for yourself you will find what you say is untrue!
2006-08-15 09:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by Grandma Susie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christians seem to be trying to take over. People claim the US is a Christian country when it was indeed founded by Deists.
2006-08-15 09:29:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians don't like the fact that this country was not founded on the bible, so they try to change history
2006-08-16 13:27:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Deists believe in God, there' no conflct between being a Deist and thinking of this as God's country.
2006-08-15 09:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last time I check this country was founded by freemasons.I could be wrong,oh well. They its a christian country but I've yet to see anything christ-like about it.
2006-08-18 10:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by ReliableLogic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
greater IQs are correct to atheism and liberalism. have you ever study the Jefferson Bible? Thomas Jefferson took the 4 Gospels, bumped off any inconsistencies and miracles, and placed all of it back together. by utilising doing this, he wanted to tutor that Jesus became a great logician, and not a messiah.
2016-11-04 21:10:12 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋