Why do you think that our government was founded on Christianity?

Question

So you think this country was founded on Christianity?
That thats what our founding father wanted?Well what about what these guys think?:

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." John Adams- Treaty of Tripoly, article 11

"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together" James Madison- Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." -Thomas Jefferson

(my personal favorite)

Dont you agree that they had a bigger idea about what was going on and what the idea really meant??

Answer 1

:) No, the founding fathers were mostly deists.

And Thomas Jefferson was a very smart man, it's good to know some of our founding fathers understanded just how twisted the structure of that religion is :O

Answer 2

Here is a thought that I am having on the subject. Why would these founding fathers who were so christian put the constitution as the ultimate set of laws of the land and not the bible? Why would they put the tools in the constitution to allow citizens to not be christian?

Why are the ten commandments not in the constitution? Why did the spend so much time debating slavery in the constitution and not any time debating making christianity the religion of the country? Why allow citizens this religious freedom unless they expected the citizens to actually use it?

It looks to me that the people who wrote up the constitution were not making this a christian country, but instead a free country.

Answer 3

"In 1776 our fathers endeavored to retire the gods from politics. They declared that "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." This was a contradiction of the then political ideas of the world; it was, as many believed, an act of pure blasphemy a renunciation of the Deity. ...It was a notice to all churches and priests that thereafter mankind would govern and protect themselves. Politically it tore down every altar and denied the authority of every "sacred book" and appealed from the Providence of God to the Providence of man."

.........."God in the Constitution", originally published in The Arena in Boston in January 1890. Taken from The New Dresden Edition of the Works of Ingersoll New York City: The Ingersoll Publishers, Inc., 1900

Answer 4

You should read the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution. They say it differently. Also, when they landed at Jamestown, the Puritans first had a communion service and then they planted a cross. The separation of church and state meant something entirely different from the contemporary meaning. They wanted freedom OF religion, not freedom from it.

Answer 5

the constitution is a secular document which gets inspiration (justice, truth, etc.) from the Bible. Many of the founding fathers were christian, others diests, etc.

Answer 6

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=20391971901965

The forefathers were not looking for freedom from religion (personal belief) BUT freedom of religion (from State control).

To judge a person's intent look at their actions.....

Answer 7

It was founded on democratic principals.

Answer 8

NO!