Why do people continue to believe and misinform others that this country was founded on Christian tenets?

Question

When countless documents from the founding fathers prove that they were indeed not Christian?

Answer 1

Its like if they pretend hard enough it will somehow be true.

In other words its wishful thinking.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams have been the two Unitarians--no longer atheists. James Madison grew to become into an Episcopalian (as grew to become into George Washington and a handful of the different founding fathers). Abraham Lincoln attended Presbyterian amenities along with his spouse yet had no particular non secular association. not one of the human beings you listed had any substantial area in the founding of u.s.. And who's to assert an Atheist could never be elected? i does no longer vote on somebody because of the fact of their non secular association; yet on their credibility.

Answer 3

LOL @ Doug's "Maybe its the part of our constitution that says our rights come from God not government or other people".

Okay, what country are you in? There might be something like that in the Taliban's constitution for Afghanistan, but the U.S. Constitution says no such thing. Same with Kenny's "Creator".

You guys are just making this stuff up. There's a word for people who do that.

Answer 4

This country was indeed founded on Christian principles.......Not all the Founding Fahters were Christian though.
They came to escape religious oppression and to be free to practice their religion.
They wanted freedom OF religion....not freedom FROM religion.

There is a quote by President George Washington.....He says," I do not believe it is possible to properly govern a country without God or the Bible".

He was smarted than many of the politicians of today

But what you are claiming is incorrect............

Even our Constitution talks about our Creator.......Who do you think THAT is??

Answer 5

You need to support your claim a little better since it's contrary to commonly held beliefs. In those days, even if people weren't practicing Christians, they held tightly to Bible principles, the rights and wrongs of Scripture. Compare our country's constitution to the Bible and then compare it to other faiths. You'll see how it all grew out of our judeo-christian roots. Today, however, we have deviated from those original precepts. Whereas people used to abide by the 10 commandments, for example, today things like lying, envying, adultery, worshiping the one God, are not upheld by many Americans anymore. Our country was built on these though.

Answer 6

Because it was. The Puritans were Christians, and while Puritanism itself is not a religion, it was the basis for several Christian based religions.

Answer 7

NOT every "founding Father" was a Christian but the biggest part of them Came Here for Religious Freedom from their Home Countries. Whether you want to share that with others or not... That is still the TRUTH. GOD has a place for you and I. In time we will be wherever we are bound for. Read, study, and OBEY HIS WORD, the BIBLE!! Have a great day.
Eds

Answer 8

well because it was, and no matter how hard you believe it was not the truth is different.how you feel about the founding fathers is how I was taught in school, but after doing some reading found out it is just not true. there is too many letters and books and documents that just show that their belief of freedom was based on Jesus Christ.think that the thoughts of John Adams is the most foretelling of the mess the USA is in now. here is some quotes first one is Dr. Rush
I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism.” “By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.” [Letter written (1790’s) in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America]
• “Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.”
• “If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.”

"Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education”
Letters of Benjamin Rush, "To the citizens of Philadelphia: A Plan for Free Schools", March 28, 1787

here is what Thomas Paine had to say
“ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
“ The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.” “The Existence of God--1810”


and George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]

and last Noah Webster

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
[Source: 1828, in the preface to his American Dictionary of the English Language

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” [Noah Webster. History. p. 339]

“The Bible was America’s basic textbook
in all fields.” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p.5]

“Education is useless without the Bible” [Noah Webster. Our Christian Heritage p

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798


The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

Answer 9

that might be the case but the christians are running the usa now

Answer 10

* They beleive that because our founding fathers talked about God and wanted religious freedom, they were Christian. That as you know is a wrong conclusion, but that is why they beleive it.*

Answer 11

Maybe its the part of our constitution that says our rights come from God not government or other people.