Do you believe that our nation is founded on christianity?

Question

do you think that our founding fathers were christians? and do you think that we should be more accepting to them because of it.

Answer 1

Absolutely not.

And neither did your founding fathers...

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Game, set, MATCH.

Answer 2

No. I believe some Christian principles influenced and shaped the founding of the United States, but the United States is not a 'Christian nation,' despite what some now would like to believe. The founders of our country were very freethinking. Having been raised near Philadelphia, I know many Friends, or people of the Quaker faith, just like Ben Franklin etc. were. Many of them are told they're not 'real Christians' just because their methods of worship are different, and I am sure that similar and more extreme behavior was what led people to the new world in the first place. Quakerism is a sect of Christianity, so yes, I believe the founders were Christian. Their specific intention was for America to be open to people of different faiths (and races: originally Thomas Jefferson wanted slavery to be outlawed in the Declaration, but it was omitted because it would not have been ratified).

In short, true Christian virtues had a hand in shaping our nation, but our nation was founded on the basis of religious freedom, not a religion itself.

Answer 3

No. The US is a secular republic. About half the founding fathers were Deists, including Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Paine (Jefferson and Paine were both hostile toward Christianity). Of those that were Christian, none were evangelical and religion was not a hot topic of any of the early debates. At the time the US was founded, only about 10% of the population even attended church.

The US was formed while the great Enlightenment was still in force and religion was being abandoned all over the west. The US is more religious today than it has been in its entire history other than the 50s.

Answer 4

Yes.Originally early Americans were very religious.In fact they were so religious that they believed that an evil was among them and thus the witch trials began.And then came the mass murder of the Native Americans because the American people viewed them selves as having manifest destiny-something with religious tones in it.This was also used to bolster support for the Mexican/American war.However, not all "founding fathers" were of a strict religion.Some would not even have anything to do with the church.

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."-Thomas Jefferson

Answer 5

Most of the founders were men of faith, though they were not all Christians. Jefferson considered himself a Christian but did not believe in the divinity of Jesus. One thing is certain, though, men of faith though they were, they were also caring, thinking people strongly influenced by Enlightenment values. They never intended for the U.S. to be an exclusively Christian nation. They set in place safeguards that would ensure that each person would have the freedom to follow his own conscience in matters of religion and personal philosophy.

The founders intended this to be a free and fair nation, an inclusive and not exclusive nation, not a "Christian nation."

Answer 6

on the stability of issues, in case you seem on the historic previous of conflict and bloodshed, and then learn it to the acts of compassion and kindness accomplished with the aid of Christians, it relatively is a no brainer - Christianity has accomplished some distance some distance far extra stable than undesirable. In announcing that, I do lament the evils that have been accomplished in Christ's call, notwithstanding it would be incorrect to label those movements the "norm" of Christian experience. Even an off-the-cuff observer can see that the regimes of Vladamir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot have accomplished far extra evil than something Christianity has ever accomplished - upload up the numbers of the Crusades and the Inquisition mixed and you will no longer get everywhere close to those communist regimes). learn this to the humanitarian artwork of many Christian agencies who bypass out in the international to grant humanitarian help to human beings international, somewhat in international locations the place such help isn't many times coming near near from all people else. As I stated, i think of the violence in Jesus' call is an unforgivable stain on the call of Christians everywhere. notwithstanding it does not represent who we are or who we've been. It represents what we would desire to stay away from. the stable Christianity has accomplished some distance outweighs something accomplished in hatred and violence in a similar call.

Answer 7

Our nation is founded on the right and freedom of believe which allows all people to worship God as they choose, whether Christian or not. Thats why they left England, rather than be forced into a "national religion of state".

Answer 8

Yes it certainly was. If you will look in the real papers of the founding fathers and not out of the mishmash of quotations and one line out of this letter and two from there, you would know it. The youth of today are being fed the big lie that this was a godless beginning. Bless your hearts, people are feeding you poison. Research for yourself, not some silly atheist website, but for real read the letters and writings in their entirety. Don't let others tell you how to think. Think for yourselves..

Answer 9

Some were Christian in one sense but not in the fundamentalist sense. They were heavy-duty intellectuals, readers of Enlightenment thinkers like Locke, Spinoza, and Rousseau. Some quotes from them:
a. John Adams: The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion (Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli).
b. Thomas Jefferson: I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature.
c. James Madison: Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
d. Benjamin Franklin: As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity (Benjamin Franklin, A Biography in his Own Words)

Answer 10

I believe that this nation was founded on christianity. Then over the years its has gotten more corrupt. I just pray that this great nation would turn back to Christ and become rooted and grounded on His word. Yes our founding fathers were christians.

Answer 11

The founding fathers were Deists, not Christians.