Ever Notice How Atheist Give us Two Accounts of the Founding Fathers?

Question

Atheist are so quick to tell us that the Founding Fathers of America were not Christians...far from it they tell us. To suggest otherwise will fling them into a level 5 Panty-Wad with Neck Veins POPPING!!!......right?


until we discuss the issue of legal slavery...

Suddenly...they put these makers of laws, these Founding Fathers through an evolution that would make Charlie Darwin wet his pants. SUDDENLY they are NOW Neo-Right-Wing Christians who enslaved the Africans..how very convenient of them. Even the Liberal Hero Thomas Jefferson (owner of over 100 slaves) is abandon and no father of theirs..they say!


Which is it?

Answer 1

most of the founding fathers were christians, some were free masons, and as far as slavery goes, yeah, they owned slaves but that was probably mostly for economical reasons and from my understanding in american history class, they didn't think slavery would last anyway.

as for the athiests giving 2 versions of the story, yeah i can see your point.

Answer 2

Some may say that, but then some Xians will say incest is wrong but turn around and say it's OK if a founding father like Abraham does it...
the people being used as examples had faults (we are talking about humans) and those speaking about the Founding Fathers make mistakes, too
but, there are plenty of 'atheists' who are very well aware that Thomas Jefferson was not Xian and never used the Bible to defend what he did as well as other founding fathers;
the Bible is only used to poiint out that it's contradictory to say someone is loving but would allow that to happen

Answer 3

Well, let's see, Ben Franklin was a Quaker not a Christian... most others were probably Catholics I'll admit, however they DID own slaves. When did people say they weren't Christians? Of course they were, it's in the damn Declaration:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence"

The whole founding of the USA was a religious decision to oppose the oppression of the English church... oh look it's coming back...

Answer 4

Jefferson was not a Christian. It you read his autobiography you will find out that his opinion is much closer to an agnostic. To answer your question about the founder of the country being Christian or not it is simple. Most of the white people in the colonies were religious reject from Europe they are mostly religious radicals for their own time who got kick out. They believe in freedom to religion instead of freedom from religion. I believe religion is good if it is separated from the government. This is exactly what the founders manage to do. You can not measure people in the past by the standard of today. Just as people hundreds of years from now may have a totally different view of moral and ethical issue from today. You can only measure people to their peers. In that type of comparisons the founder were probably the greatest collection of human talent of their time. The Constitution is the testament of that.

Answer 5

I think the christian ones, the nonchristian ones, the Atheist ones, the deist ones, all of them were a part of slavery. But, slavery is supported in the bible. Mormons, and some other christian groups go so far as to belive black persons are black, as a punishment from the christian god. You might see vauge references to a god, or creator, but why didn't the founding fathers come out and say, jehovah and jesus are the gods we support?

Answer 6

No i've got by no skill observed that. They have been Unitarians at suitable. it somewhat is an trouble-free certainty that Jefferson and Franklin doubted the divinity of Christ. They concept he became right into a nifty instructor and certainty seeker, yet they did no longer think of he became into the son of God. Adams signed the treaty with the Berbers that reported: "usa is under no circumstances a Christian united states". It became into exceeded unanimously by skill of the Senate - making it US regulation. And have been they incorrect? Yeah. would not cause them to evil. Slavery as a company is evil. the individuals who partook in it are inherently evil. it somewhat is a shame that they could no longer have recognised how incorrect it became into. yet, like a number of people and maximum great people, they have been incorrect. no longer each little thing is two-sided and lifelike people see the midsection. needless to say, the individuals you whinge approximately - and you - can not discover that lifelike center.

Answer 7

Point me to a liberal who said this. Your whole argument is a dostorted Straw Man.

Jefferson and his contemporaries were men of their time. Brilliant, but subject to the prejeduces and foibles that men of that age had. Yes, Jefferson did have slaves. He also crafted the Seperation between Church and State.

Answer 8

How many so called 'atheists' have you gotten this information from. I'm an atheist and I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Sounds to me more like you have a problem with atheists and can't let go. Good luck. You're always going to run into trouble when you come up with these gross generalizations.

Answer 9

As I already told you when you promoted this bullshit the FIRST time:

No, the founders were Deists.

But that does not change the FACT that the christian bible was used to justify slavery in the US.



You are dishonestly trying to make two issues into one, for the sake of your weak faith.

I called you on this lie last time, yet you chose to repeat it.

Obviously the truth means nothing to you.

Answer 10

I guess you only read what you want from answers. I don't recall ever seeing any atheist saying that America wasn't founded by Christians, both catholic and protestant. Why would atheists lie about history? that would make them equal to the fundamentalist fools like you