How has the Christian religion impacted the US since its beginning?

Question

What are the tangible consequences of a religious United States population?

Rich S: our founding fathers were NOT Chritians, and did not believe that Jesus was the son of God (though they, like I, thought he was a pretty darn good guy).

Please read about that. Truth is power, friend.

Answer 1

Christians do very mean and nasty things to people when they get into power (burning at the stake, flaying, stoning etc.) Now they are trying to deny people basic rights because of sexual orientation. Christians are an evil people. Not as evil as Muslims but pretty evil never the less. Good people don't worship something that says that it will put people into a burning lake of fire. I wouldn't worship something that would torture a worm. Anything that builds a torture chamber(burning lake of fire) and says it will use it is evil period.

Answer 2

For the first two hundred years in this country, Christianity and it's principals help to govern this land. Even the Jews, who also shared this land for much of that time, realized their minority position left them little re coarse but to defer to this as being a Christian country. Yet, both religions found a mutual respect and the ability to co-exist.

The last thirty years has brought a huge diversity to this land that prompted government to discourage the acknowledgment of a single religion or belief. The separation of church and state is the euphemism they use, but it goes so much deeper than that.
Children are know longer able to discuss their religious beliefs or talk about their God, for fear that another student will be offended.

I believe the communists, in their worst days, had less restriction on the word of God than we do today in the US.

As a child growing up, we all learned the ten commandments, whether we were Christian or Jew. We could recite them inter religiously, but most of all, we all lived by those same commandments. I believe your word consequences should be re-written to say, benefits!

Answer 3

Well, since the overwhelming majority of the population of the early colonies and of the early United States was Christian, I'd say we were doing very well indeed to have the First Amendment. However, it was made necessary as much to keep different varieties of Christians from making power-trips on one another, and only the foresight and philosophical integrity of the framers of the Constitution (though it was put in as an amendment, give them credit that they put it first) now protects non-Christians as well. Also, many of the founding fathers were deists who resisted being pigeonholed into a denomination or sect.

The early case law is mostly about Jews, but eventually every non-Christian group including, finally, atheists have had their swing at the details of applying the First Amendment to real people and their real relationships to one another.

So Christianity had a major impact in part by being sufficiently divided within itself to require a Constitutional guarantee that no one was going to tell you what to believe "or the free exercise" of the religion you choose.

We're still working out a good many details on the "free exercise" elements aren't we, neo-Pagans?

Answer 4

Well most of the freedoms that this country talks about are a direct result of Christian beliefs. If not for those that have a concience and believe that we as people answer to God, you wouldn't even be posting on this site. If you don't like that type of belief and thinking, why don't you try moving to North Korea.

Trust me no real freedom ever comes from someone who doesn't believe in the principals of God.

Christians doing horrible things? You mean like helping the sick, feeding the hungry, or taking in the poor? Yeah a place with people like that must be terrible.

Answer 5

Christianity is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this country. That is why it was so succesful in the past. As soon as Christainity was taken out of schools, U.S started going down hill. The gay movement, abortion, porn, & divorce rate are all products of turning from Christian values.

Answer 6

It has continued to wring all the fun out of life wherever it happened to appear.

Answer 7

It has created millions of hateful and intolerable people who feel better about themselves by forcing their beliefs on everyone around them.

Answer 8

I have a vision of a perect line of mindless toy soldiers.......

Answer 9

"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer"
Sound familiar?

Eventually they'd try to rout out anyone who didn't follow their doctrine, and then those who don't follow it exactly, those who interpret it differently, and so on.

Answer 10

nothing.... 90% US citizen drunk, 80% sex before married, 40% gay / lesbian, 46% support Bush.... i guess there is no impact...