Don't You Know that America Was Not Founded on Christianity?

Question

My fellow Christians please do not be offended I say this with love.

The U.S. of A was not founded as a Christian Nation per se. Yes there were some Christian principles indoctrinated in the founding of this great country but, not as a Christian nation. America was and is a secular nation with a large Christian constituency.

The kid across the great pond was the place to go to practice religion of choice.

To practice the religion of choice became official with the first amendment to the Constitution. Those first ten amendments are known as The Bill of Rights:

Amendment I: Freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

May the Grace and Love of the Lord Jesus be with you all.

Cathy --

Yes I know that, I didn't have room to do a complete dissertation on the subject.

Answer 1

Not only do I applaud your intelligence, I am thankful to see that not all Christians feel that they can distort history to make it so their faith should be the only one in the U.S..
Though we are different in what we believe, this does not matter when you speak sensibly. I bow with my hat off to you.
May where ever you go be filled with what you want it to be.
-Smallz

Answer 2

Well you are part right, the US was not founded on CHristian principles per se since most of our founding fathers were agnostic.

However to say freedom of religion was in the US that is completely wrong, the ones that were being persecuted in England just came over and started their own brand of religious persecuation here. Look at their laws and they way they treated Catholics and the Native American religions, the Quakers, etc, etc.

To the first answerer "one nation under God was not assed until 1954" the US was founded long before that.

Answer 3

have a glance at my source. Conservative George Will comments a clean e book in this topic, and the evaluate ought to make clean the problem substantially. the base line is that the concept that it is a "Christian united states" is thoroughly pretend. even if the Founding Fathers were Christian or no longer, the actual undeniable actuality that they kept faith out of the structure establishes the country's non-non secular nature. this situation is closed. those who proceed to argue that united states is a Christian united states are basically liars, and are promulgating anti-American perspectives. This united states is more beneficial useful than that, and Christianity should be more beneficial useful than that besides.

Answer 4

Yes this true and yet most of your fellow christians, those who are extremists do think that it was founded on christianity and make false statements to those who try to dispute that comment.

Answer 5

Yes?

Answer 6

Golf clap

this atheist wishes you all good things!


Flower keeper, it's thou, and steal, and those are not in the Constitution. those are common basic concepts of morality found outside of theism.

Answer 7

yes, it was not founded as a religious based state. But some people are going to quote you The Pledge of Allegiance, or tell you our money says "In God we Trust" on it. But they completely ignore the fact that nowhere on our money or in our pledge does it make reference to a CHRISTIAN God.

Answer 8

Cool.

Answer 9

It was actually based on Greek philosophy.

Answer 10

Bravo!