When people say that this country is founded on Christian beliefs, does that mean after the Christians killed the Native Americans and destroyed their beliefs? Or is it regarding other christian beliefs like Slavery and Segregation. Please help clarify which one of these that god thinks is best.
2007-03-15 04:53:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Isn't this self serving question silly. It's kind of like most of the questions which are asked in this category by all religious denominations and atheists alike. Lets just get along and realize that we all need to share this little world of ours. We might as well enjoy our differences. With love... the atheist
2007-03-15 04:59:13 · update #1
Actually, it was founded on secularist beliefs. People were escaping religious persecution. The first to kill the natives, and all others if you ask me, were in it for financial gain, not spiritual growth. That is where the ugliness of religion comes in. Religious people should not be free to wonder away from law and basic dignity.
PS:Treaty with Tripoli. Under Washington and signed by Adams:
"As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption to the harmony existing between the two countries."
2007-03-15 05:07:55 · answer #1 · answered by Tink 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would point out article eleven of the Treaty of Tripoli signed in 1796, authored and negotiated by Washington's Administration and signed by John Adams.
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
The treaty was broken by the Pasha of Tripoli in 1801 and this specific provision was renewed in the following treaty. So since Jefferson founded the University of Virginia to remove religion from education, and Adams said the best of all worlds would be a world without religion, and Franklin and Madison were also not Christian, I suspect that we were founded upon the principals of the Enlightenment and not Christianity.
2007-03-15 05:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you look at the history of the migration of Europeans the country was built on the the concept of religious freedom, even though the Puritans were a Christian sect. So, whoever says that the country was formed on Christian beliefs is not correct.
2007-03-15 04:57:51 · answer #3 · answered by Brainiac 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I am always saddened to think of what the white man did to the Native American. The concepts of slavery and segregation and annihilation of another's beliefs are foreign to us now -- we now know them to be wrong -- but we cannot change the past. Your question is a pointless one because there is no right answer to it.
2007-03-15 04:59:14 · answer #4 · answered by kja63 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
individuals, early ones, have been Christians. That being stated, the rustic became no longer in line with Christian ideals, however the people, who understand what it became want to be persecuted for their ideals, knew that the spectacular to have faith something you prefer to became important, and the entire argument, 'nicely the 1st individuals have been Christians', it does not fly in any respect, using fact early settler individuals might have been Christians, yet they knew adequate to place freedom of religion into the form.
2016-10-18 11:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"
Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli 1791
2007-03-15 05:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by naz 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This Country was built when the Apple fell on George Washington head
2007-03-15 06:05:05 · answer #7 · answered by who cares 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our forefounding fathers built this country on religious beliefs. If you look at our laws and read the 10 commandments, they are the same.
As for who killed the Native American Indians, it was simply white man. They wanted the land, and just was not willing to share it. They out numbered the Native American Indians, which is a shame, because they took care of their land. We did not.
I'm part Cherokee, French and English and have done alot of research to understand.
2007-03-15 05:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by ladonnasleather 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I guess they mean that when we first got here, we didn't really account for anyone else's beliefs. I guess that when we outnumbered the native americans, no one really cared.
2007-03-15 04:58:39 · answer #9 · answered by Kara Joy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
U're country was colonized by people from all over the world, who didn't respect the laws, or they were slaves and run in America to escape. I'm talking about whores and bandits. So that's what mighty America is made of.
2007-03-15 04:58:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋