Were they Christians or Deists?
Was our country founded on freedom of religion or freedom for christians only?
Why the mindless rants about liberals and the denial of christian values?
2007-03-12 02:47:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sounds like someone learned new words, albeit they're used incorrectly - capricious and arbitrary. Ooh - I shudder at the intellect.
2007-03-12 03:03:35 · update #1
Boy, there are a lot of opinions here.....if you do a little research - especially the writings of our founders, you will see that most of them were Deists....
2007-03-12 06:13:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
maximum were Deist's, very few Christians. study what Thomas Jefferson had to assert about church and state being brothers. there is one issue I oftentimes wondered about tho. If those human beings were so non secular, why did not the female have a vote or to vote, one should be a land proprietor. i visit assert one issue about their faith tho, that each one exceedingly a lot were happy with the slaves and with the flexibility to possess yet another human. Jesus suggested it nicely at the same time as he called the church the whore, dozing with each authorities. And that is going for the favourite day church also. How lengthy do you imagine the Pope may have stayed alive if he hadn't been hand in hand with Hitler.
2016-12-01 21:17:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The founding fathers were mostly Protestant. the country was founded on freedom of religion. I have none myself, at least not mainstream beliefs. On the freedom of religion issue and what ever you feel about Democrats and there views on Christianity.....they are allowed to, they have that freedom. I'm republican personally and I think Christianity is deplorable.
2007-03-12 02:59:18 · answer #3 · answered by Centurion529 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some founders were deists some were Christians. The freedom of religion you reference was for all faiths providing it that freedom did not violate the constitution. Liberals are dedicated to the elimination of religion from the public square. This is not some far fetched rant but an observation of their conduct.
2007-03-12 03:00:40 · answer #4 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋
If you are talking about the core group (Washngton, Franklin, Jefferson...), they were overwhelmingly Deists, and the Christians among them did not resemble in any way the Evangelical Christians who most loudly claim that our country is founded on Christian ideals.
2007-03-12 03:01:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
They practiced what they wanted to practice, not what someone else wanted to cram down their throat.
They were both Christians and Deists.
Freedom of religion because they thought one should be able to choose what religion they wanted to worship or not at all, which included not passing laws that force others religious views on others.
Tunnel vision and prejudice.
2007-03-12 02:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Some were agnotist. The US was founded on religious freedom.
2007-03-12 02:53:25 · answer #7 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It was a mix of faiths. Many were simply Deitists.
There were Catholics, Protestants, Puritans, Anglicans, etc.
2007-03-12 02:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by Villain 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
They were all Christian. Some more devout than others. Ben Franklin may be considered a non-Christian but that to is debatable.
In truth it was freedom of Christian religion. There were no others included at the time.
2007-03-12 02:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
The founding fathers practiced a wide variation of religions but were predominantly Christian at their core.
2007-03-12 02:50:38 · answer #10 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋