America was built on the foundation of the bible and God. why are some people tryn to tear that down?

Answer 1

Simple.

Freedom of speech. We may not agree but there you go.

Answer 2

America was built on the foundation of freedom for all, be they Christians, Hindus, atheists, or undecided, or something else entirely. Where, exactly, does it say, "God rules, and the Bible's the only way to go"? Because I can come up with lots of places where it was made very clear that Church and State are to be separate.

Why would you want a theocracy anyway? So freedom's only okay for Christians? Which Christians? Are we going to be a Southern Baptist theocracy or a Unitarian Universalist one? What are you going to do with the people that disagree with you? You can't have them around in your little Christian state, can you? But then, it's not American to silence dissent (or at least, it didn't used to be). Look, the best thing that can come out of a state religion is a people who are utterly blase towards religion (see Great Britain). Americans, with freedom of religion and no state religion, at least officially, thanks, guys, has some of the church-goingest people in the world, and you want to ruin that? And then there's the worst thing that can come out of a state run religion- the Inquisition. Do we really want to go back to the burning times?

Answer 3

Actually, no, America was NOT built on the foundation of the Bible and God. America was built on the principle of FREEDOM, which unfortunately many people tend to forget these days in the heat of modern religious fervor.

America's forefathers LEFT England and other countries because at that time, those countries were theocratic. Those governments told them what religion to be, who to worship, and frequently those who did not were jailed or executed. Even when they disagreed with the state religion, they followed it because they had no choice. The forefathers left because they were sick of being told which version of God to follow and how to follow him.

While I'm in no way debating that the forefathers were most likely Christian(though not Christian in the modern sense. There was a time when Catholics were hated and persecuted in this country, believe it or not. I believe Jefferson himself was a Deist and everyone knows that Ben Franklin was a Quaker), they DID recognize the fact that even the various denominations of Christianity couldn't get along with each other.

Rather than build a mini-England in which everyone fought over just which version of Christianity to follow, they put in the precious First Amendment, which guaranteed all Americans to be able to believe as they choose, without fear of execution or unfair imprisonment by the government for believing in the "wrong" form of Christian religion. They could be Deist or Protestant or Puritan, whatever they chose, and the government couldn't say "you can't believe that".

Religion was protected as something deeply personal that everyone had the right to believe in without fear, but it also kept the government from being overrun with nothing but religion. Both the government and the individual were protected. It can't prohibit a person from believing, but government itself cannot believe lest it start playing favorites.

While the forefathers may have initially intended the clause to extend only to Christian religions to keep Christians from fighting with each other, in today's world, that clause has reasonably extended to non-Christian beliefs and, like it or not, nonbelief. Despite likely intentions, the forefathers did NOT specify, and probably with good reason lest something so delicate be twisted and shattered into something they fled from in the first place.

Religion is deeply, intensely personal. It is a thought, a belief. You can NOT force someone to believe, not deep down. A person may follow a state religion in places where there are such theocracies, but that by no means is proof that they truly believe inside, especially if they are at risk for imprisonment, torture, or execution. Our forefathers knew this firsthand, thusly, they implimented safeguards in the Constitution to prevent the sort of cruelty they witnessed in the Old World from happening in their new country.

Religion is by no means trying to be destroyed in this country. Believers and nonbelievers alike are trying to protect America's most precious commodity...freedom. It is unfortunate that there are some overzealous believers who think they are the only ones entitled to freedom and are the ones, not the atheists and non-Christians, who are trying to destroy a precious right we all take for granted.

Answer 4

It was founded on the principles of personal freedom, by a people who were subjected to religious persecution (among other things) by the Brits. Dittos should stop and ponder this point. One of the reasons America seperated from England was because they were being forced to subscribe to the moral teachings of the Church of England. But the bible thumpers today dont see that they are attempting to do they very same thing to the rest of us.

Freedom of religion was just one facet. Mostly, however, it was taxation issues.

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson who wrote the declaration was adamant that religion and government be separate, as did other founding fathers. the Puritans were the thumpers of their days and now we got the lambs led by the religious right. Maybe you should do some research into the history of the bible stories and see the light. And don't forget Jesus was a Jew and told us to honor the father, so I hope to see you going to the temple and observing Passover as Jesus did.

Answer 6

America was built on the foundation of religious freedom...Not god!!! There is a difference. Many Christians don't understand this point. Why ?

Answer 7

"America" originally did not have the problems with religion, race, poverty, crime, war, slavery, health, and so on BEFORE the greedy europeans came here and destroyed the beauty of this land. This country wasn't built on anything except deception, murder, lies, force, and enslavement. With that as a foundation is it any wonder that things are so bad now.

Answer 8

puritans found America and that was based on what youre saying and then America just came about and new religions came and stuff

ppl try to tear it down because they are self centered, arrogant and just plain evil, really think about how bad a person is, if they want to take everything away from you
though thats ironic, based on what they did to get their country but still

Answer 9

America was built by people who were escaping religious oppression in Europe, why should anyone have a specific religion thrown in their face. First Amendment calls for freedom of religion.

Answer 10

Because the atheist run ACLU believe that the point of view of very few people is more important than that of the majority. Talk about cramming someones belief down others throats.

Answer 11

They are trying to tear down everything that is not their way. This is happening every day all over the country. If I like green and you like blue, then you scream that things are not blue. That's healthy because it is freedom to object.

Atheists object because your religion is not their religion.