Do you adolescents know that our country was founded by?

Question

God-fearing and Bible believing people? They had laws
against evils of sodomy and fornication?

Answer 1

The Treaty of Tripoli, America's first treaty which was passed unanimously and signed by John Adams in 1797 states in its 11th article, and I quote:

"America is in no way founded upon the Christian religion."

And here are some quotes from the founding fathers themselves:

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.)

Every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." - George Washington (Letter to the United Baptist Churches in Virginia in May, 1789)

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787)

"When a Religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." - Benjamin Franklin (from a letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780;)

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of... Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."- Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.)

"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth." - Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 363.)

"Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?" - John Adams

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -Thomas Jefferson (The Jefferson Bible)

Answer 2

I think that is very misleading.

The founding fathers, not all but most, had a belief in Jesus Christ, and definately had a belief in the Almighty God. It is in most of their writings.

In the Treaty of Tripoli, it was pointed out that this country is headed by a secular government and it was designed that way for a purpose. Many had come from European nations that had state churches. Our founders did not want a state church in this country, or an endorsement of any particular denomination.

But that does not negate the fact that George Washington did not have a single meeting with anyone until after he had completed his daily prayer and bible reading that lasted three hours every day.

Prayer to the Almighty God was instituted in the Constitutional convention at the encouragement of Benjamin Franklin.
He used a Bible verse to make his point saying that if a person cannot build a house without the hand of the Almighty God, then how can we attempt to build a nation without His hand.

But, our founders wanted our government set up in such a way that each individual had the opportunity to worship their God, according to the way that is most meaningful to them.

Only Thomas Jefferson rebelled against the religion of Jesus Christ, creating his own Bible with all the scriptures pointing to the deity of Christ and the miracles of God taken out.

Jefferson felt that Jesus was a great example of the righteous life, but refused to believe that he was divine or could make miracles.

Answer 3

You say adolescent like it's a bad thing. There are many God-fearing, Bible believing young people today. As well as some pretty corrupted older people. Maybe we shouldn't limit our questions to particular age groups.

Answer 4

Half of them were what was called deists. They believed in God but no particular one. That's why they incorporated freedom of religion into the constitution. If they were Christians they would have probably made it the state religion. While I am sure most of them were probably against sodomy. Most of them enjoyed fornicating. Ben Franklin was well known for his fornifications.

Answer 5

YES!!! I wish everyone knew that. Schools these days...

The biblical foundations are what was holding this country together!!! God has blessed America like no other country (except Israel, maybe, sometimes) and, like the Israelites in the old testament, we are slipping away from all those good morals and beliefs, resulting in the country itself falling apart. This is a people-governed country and when the people go bad, the country goes bad. America's purpose when it started was to be a place where we could worship the Lord freely, but now people have abused that freedom and use it for their own greed. We are so blind and ignorant; soon enough America will be brought to its knees, whether economically or militarily, we will all suffer for anti-patriotism (not to mention anti-Christianity as well).

A great song on this subject is Steve Camp's "My America"...in fact, all his songs are incredible!

Great eye-opener to bring up! ;)

Answer 6

It's true that the United States was founded by very religious people. Many of the early settlers came to the USA to avoid religious persecution in their own country. However, many weren't Christian and had very different belief's than we have today. Ben Franklin was our best know forefather and the Internet encyclopedia says "Although Franklin may have financially supported one particular Presbyterian group in Philadelphia [20], it nevertheless appears that he never formally joined any particular Christian denomination or any other religion."

Answer 7

i believe in that stuff too, yet you may understand our usa had those values as aims, no longer realities. The founding fathers were slaveholders, maximum of them. maximum of those freedoms were in effortless words obtainable to the wealthy. It develop into the wealthy who began our authorities and it truly is been that way ever considering that and remains like that. it is why it doesn't artwork because it truly is in accordance with cloth income in place of authentic human values. that is a dogfight merely to have respectable healthcare for all like the a number of more beneficial humane international places contained in the international.

Answer 8

Did you know the Founding Fathers who wrote the United States Constitution were Deists, not "God-fearing and Bible believing people"? Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin both stated they had "sincere doubts" about the divinity of Jesus Christ, and George Washington refused communion in church because he did not feel it right being he did not believe in it.

And as pointed out above, the Native Americans were here first, and they didn't believe in Christianity either.

Add: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire...I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity." Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Ezra Stiles

Answer 9

Actually, our country was founded by deists. Most of them did not believe in the Trinity, the deity of Christ, supernatural revelation, or the inerrancy of the Scriptures. They believed in a "philosophers' God." Their closest theological descendants today would be Unitarians. Not "Bible Christians" by a LONG SHOT.

Answer 10

EENNNTTT WRONG!

People were already here. I don't care if it wasn't the U.S. or not at that time. I consider THEM to be the real founders of this land. Your kind just intruded. Those "god fearing bible people" that came here did some really bad things.

Edit: And as others are saying, the U.S. (by name...) founders were Deists, imagine that.