I dont understand where this mistaken thought comes from.I mean I get the under God stuff...ya know really I do, but that doesnt mean that the country was founded on God, because if it was really founded on God, there never would have been religious persecution in America, or slavery, or women not having rights until fairly recently.It seems to me more like America was founded on greed.
2006-08-25 06:23:58 · 25 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Under God was not added in our pledge until fairly recently. America was indeed founded on religious freedom, if you were of the same religion as the founding fathers. William Penn had to found Pennsylvania for the Quakers, and Thomas Hooker had to flee to what is now Rhode Island for religious freedom. The colonies formed their own country when they didnt want to pay the taxes that England wanted them to pay. The taxes that should have been paid because they were to offset the costs of the war that England had to burden for Americas sake.
2006-08-25 06:50:35 · update #1
This one of the biggest problems I have with organized religion, that repressing women and having slaves are okay with the Bible. I mean seriously to follow organized religion you have to be brain dead. I will never believe that a God that loved us enough to create us would want us to treat other human beings like that. Its just mind boggling the things people do in the name of God. I mean a very liberal democrat and I believe in God and creation, through evolution, and I have some real problems with the way religious types think. I would never try to force my religion on other person, or try to make other person live my beliefs. When I hear that this country was founded on God, so we have should have God based laws, I want to vomit.
2006-08-25 06:54:04 · update #2
It was pure greed. America was founded by second sons of the wealthy Europeans. The first son inherited all from the father, the second son got nothing. Literally. The leaders of the expeditions to the new continent were told they could claim all the land they want, just send back a certain amount of gold. The people who signed up to go with them were leaving the religious persecution in Europe. America was founded on greed.
2006-08-25 06:29:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Not sure why you think that religious persecution was somehow part of the foundations of this country, or where you get the idea that slavery is somehow against the bible, or women lacking rights was somehow an affront to Christianity at that time, or any different that anywhere else.
First, please explain how you arrived at the conclusion that this country was founded upon religious persecution.
Second, slavery was never condemned in the Bible, so calling it anti-Christian is inaccurate. At the time of the founding of America, every culture in every country on every continent had slavery. It was not until the English speaking Christians created the abolition movement that slavery began to be considered a wrong.
As for women not having full rights, that's the way it was. In the typical Christian marriage vows, the man vows to cherish, but the woman vows to obey. It was a patriarchal society. Again, not particularly different from any other culture of that time, nor was this anything that went against the Bible.
2006-08-25 13:37:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Mayflower company came to America to escape religious persecution and to live with religious freedom. Other immigrants sought the same rights. However, man following his own heart and mind distorts what those principles are for his own benefit. Unless God is willing to send the flood waters, and the seven plagues, it appears that we are going to have to influence the trend away from greed and avarice, and return to the religion.
Remember, more people have been killed in religious conflicts that all the wars in the history of man. The distortion of suicide to expunge sins and go to heaven is a gross distortion of religion, and yet Muslims continue to stress this theme.
2006-08-25 13:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Lance U 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You couldn't be more wrong. Take fresh meat out and leave it on your coffee table for a few days. What was once potentially delicious is now smelly and useless. When God's truth is held in man's imperfect hands it always becomes corrupt. Look at many charitable organizations throughout history; when the founders die, the organization usually becomes corrupt. Read, "America's Godly Heritage" and see that those founding Father's loved God and used godly principles to create the framework for an amazing often copied government.
2006-08-25 13:32:38 · answer #4 · answered by timcote7 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was, but you have to consider the mores of the time. Not all Christians agree on which principles are most important, which is why there are different denominations of Christianity.
As for women not having many rights until fairly recently - I wouldn't say that's a Christian thing. That was pretty constant around the globe. There are plenty of areas in the world where women STILL don't have anything remotely resembling equal rights.
2006-08-25 13:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by Chris S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who the hell do you idiots think the Pilgrims were? They were "Puritans", a Christian sect that was persecuted in England. They fled to the New World to avoid that.
Also, the Americas were founded and settled by Christianity dominated countries (England, France, Spain). What principles do you think it would be founded on?
When Columbus landed on Hispanola, he claimed the land for God and Queen Isabella. Christianity and Goovernments were one and the same back then.
Get a clue guy!
2006-08-25 13:33:26 · answer #6 · answered by machine_head_327 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How sad i am that you americans don´t even know your history. The Pilgrims came to america for freedom of worship. in that time there was a religious persecution in England to everyone who was not a member of the Church of England. So they came to america and established themselves in the original 13 colonies, one for every christian denomination (Catholics, Quakers, Lutherans, etc.). I learned this in elementary school in my country Honduras. I can´t believe you don´t know this.
2006-08-25 13:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by camp1971 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The United State wasn't founded yesterday o.k. If it was founded yesterday then maybe there would not had been slavery, religious persecution and others!!
250+ years ago people live and think a little bit different than yesterday or today.
Christian Principles = Current Democratic United State of America! We are not call The Republic Communist Americans
2006-08-25 13:30:55 · answer #8 · answered by too K 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because at least some of the founders were Christian.
And because the majority of people in the country are Christian.
And since our government is based on majority rule, that means Christians should get to make all the laws they want.
2006-08-25 13:28:57 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ahhh but it was.
The U.S. revivalist movement of the 1740's and 50's was responsible for the idea of individual rights an freedoms granted by God.
Without this idea the US could have never been conceived of.
2006-08-25 13:31:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋