The left-wingers love to tell us that the Founding Fathers were not Christians, they were the very foundation of the modern day democratic party..they tell us...to suggest other wise will send these open-minded, free thinking liberal into a level 5 panty-wad with neck veins popping like a well worn garden hose...right???
until we speak of legal slavery of that era.....
suddenly our friends on the left put these makers of laws...these Founding Fathers through an evolution that would make Charlie Darwin CRINGE!!!!!
NOW...they are right-wing Neo-Republican Christians who enslaved the Africans...even the liberal hero Thomas Jefferson (owner of over 100 slaves) is quickly abandoned...no father of theirs they tell us.....
ever notice?
2006-09-25 14:36:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How dare liberals think of our founding fathers in complex terms rather than in the simplistic methods that christianity teachs us to use.
How dare they praise our founding father's for rising above much of their generation's faults and creating a nation out of the ideals of humanism, while condemning them for giving in to the Christian practice of enslaving human beings?
(I hope you recognise the sarcasm in my voice. It can be hard to make come across in type.)
2006-09-25 14:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by bardoi 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, actually, I never did that. I actually read up on it first. They weren't Democratic OR Republican... Over half the "Founding Fathers" wrote Against Democracy. Jefferson was one who wrote against Democracy. Saying something akin to it destroying the gov't, rather than making a firm gov't the people could trust. They established a Republic (how ppl who fight for the Pledge overlook this one is beyond me). And it's easy to point out that those who wrote these things had slaves. It was accepted in that time. Makes it weird to read it saying "all men created equal" knowing that the person saying that owns slaves.
BTW, I would most likely be considered "Left". I am far from a Right Winger. And I would like to know who does this. I don't hit on many questions of this nature and haven't seen anyone say anything like that... to the degree you are putting it.
2006-09-25 21:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The founding fathers were mostly deists. A deist is one who believes in the existence of God on the evidence of reason and nature but rejects supernatural revelation. Actually I think all the founding fathers were slave owners. It was a sad circumstance of the times. My very conservative brother admires Thomas Jefferson, so there goes that label. I've never heard that the founding fathers were the founders of the democratic party. Now Bush keeps saying he wants to spread our democracy all over the world. We actually are a republic. Pay attention the next time you say the pledge of allegiance. Finally, the founding fathers were mostly wealthy landowners who didn't want to pay taxes to Britain, so they started the revolution.
2006-09-25 21:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, not sure what you are getting at but here:
The Democratic party defended slavery. It was the Republicans who were abolitionists.
Only seven of the Founding Fathers were not Christian. They were deist or Unitarian.
Washington owned slaves. They were listed in his will.
2006-09-25 21:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by BABY 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Washington tried his best to get rid of slavery as a condition to from The United States from the 13 colonies. Many states refused to go along with this request. Washington gave it in prder to form the union. He was never happy with the decision, and after he died, his will called for the freeing of all his slaves.
Founding Fathers were Diests. They believed in natural law, and coirrectly and totally believed in the complete and utter separation of church and state in all aspects of American government. It weas a great, perthaps their greatest contribution to mankind, because this alone was the one thing which took religious intolernace bias and prejudice out of the political arena, in theory.
2006-09-25 21:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by Legandivori 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Really? Because I think that Jefferson, et al, had wonderful ideas that they couldn't quite see to the conclusion or entirely live by, which is why civil rights movements had to build on them.
2006-09-25 21:41:25 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever notice that the name of this group is R&S, not Politics?
If you want to talk politics go somewhere else.
2006-09-25 21:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
2006-09-25 21:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I think that's your imagination.
2006-09-25 21:40:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋