for those people who believe this is a christian nation...?

Question

since when was this country a christian nation? did we have a vote and decide on a national religion? was i in a coma when this happend? i was under the impression that this country was founded on the belief of freedom of religion for all. and going along with this idea america was founded on the idea of a separation of church and state. since the state controls public schools there is no reason to have prayer and religion in public schools. thats why the church has private schools owned by the diocese. was i wrong?

Answer 1

You are 100% correct. So many people claim the founding fathers were Christian, so that makes the US a Christian nation. Some were, some were not, but it is irrelevant in any case.

They very carefully founded a secular nation, so that the state could never mandate a religion, and religious freedom would
be a guarantee to all people.

Answer 2

wen someone has lived only a few short years as you have, reading thoroughly the history of America without bias may provide more clearer answers to see that this country's government and laws were based by the Bible and God's laws. Considering the Bible was taught in schools as recently as the 1950's, and the textbooks of 11th graders were the equivilent of the 3RD GRADERS in the early 1800's, it seems this generation takes the easy road.
The separation of church and state wasn't a "wall," but a line for each to help out but to prevent one from dictating how the other should run itself.
Lastly, if the school can promote witchcraft, it certainly shows a favortism for a religion.

Answer 3

The real problem is that we have public schools at all. As parents, we are charged by God to raise up our children in the way they should go. For me it's not too much of a problem. I'll sell whatever I have to keep my kids in a Christian school. If I get to a point where I cannot afford it, we'll home school. My heart goes out to the parents who cannot afford to pay for the public school indoctrination and also pay for a good Christian school for their children.

We need to do away with public education - how could we possibly expect to set up a system that will raise ALL children in the way ALL parents want their children raised? A start is school vouchers. Eventually, all schools in this country should be private. That way all parents can have their children exposed to just what they feel is the right thing for them to be exposed to.

Answer 4

Sorry to burst your bubble but someone must have slept through American History classes. The county was founded by Christians looking for freedom to be Christians. ("In God we Trust" on our money; "one nation under God" in the pledge of allegiance; the Declaration "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..." etc. etc. everywhere.) One phrase you won't find in an official American document is "separation of church and state." Go ahead- look it up- put the internet to the test. That phrase is nowhere in the Amendments. It was written in 1802 by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist church to tell them that they don't have to worry about this country taking away their right to be Christians.

Exactly what this country is trying to prevert that phrase to mean.

I am not a religion pusher. I don't want you or anyone else to miss out on the greatest gift they can have- knowing our Creator, but I won't shove it down your throat. I do however have a problem with this country choosing to get dumber and dumber about our heritage just so they don't have to face the fact that there may be something to this Christianity thing that all of the brilliant and brave people who founded this wonderful country believed in it.

I'm sorry if I sound mean- I'm not mad at you. I'm made at all the people that have lied to you so you believe such a twisted line of thought.

Answer 5

I am actually a christian, and the state did not vote it a christian nation, that is just the majority of population i guess. and secondly, their is freedom of religion, do u remember anyone saying you couldnt be your own religion? thats what i thought. people are pushing hristianity away more and mroe, so if anything, it isnt the state religion.

Answer 6

Its a choice if you pray in public school not forced.Hey why not pray are you to good for everyone.Your pride blinds you.Wake up call you are human like me just with some beliefs that differ my belief is love yours is hate.Love is open willing to understand the reason and motivation behind things hate just say this is stupid because it is not helping me out in anyway to make me rich.Yup so go ahead and bash love because at some point you migh open up your heart and see that it was meaningless to bash something that inspires and gives hope to people.Not only that but make them better.So dont think what you say is helpful to the world it is not.You are talking about taking away love and hope and life.So think about what you are preaching against.

Answer 7

The US was founded upon Deism, not Christianity. Three of the first four founding presidents publicly denounced Christianity.

The concept of "deism" covers a wide variety of positions on a wide variety of religious issues. Following Sir Leslie Stephen's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that two features constituted the core of deism:

* the rejection of revealed religion — This was the negative or critical aspect of deism.
* the belief that reason leads us to certain basic religious truths — This was the positive or constructive aspect of deism.

Deist authors advocated a combination of both critical and constructive elements in proportions and emphases that varied from author to author.

Critical elements of deist thought included:

* Rejection of all religions based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God.
* Rejection of the claim that the Bible is the revealed word of God.
* Rejection of reports of miracles and prophecies.
* Rejection of religious "mysteries" such as the doctrines of transsubstantiation, the Trinity, the Incarnation, etc.
* Rejection of the Genesis story of creation and the doctrine of original sin.
* Rejection of only the parts of the Bible that contain miracles, prophecies, or mysteries.
* Rejection of Christianity.

Constructive elements of deist thought included:

* God exists and created the universe.
* God wants human beings to behave morally.
* Human beings have souls that survive death, i.e. there is an afterlife.
* In the afterlife, God will reward moral behavior and punish immoral behavior.

Some Deists rejected the claim of Jesus's divinity, but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible). Other, more radical, Deists rejected Christianity altogether, and expressed hostility toward Christianity which they regarded as pure superstition. In return, Christian writers often charged radical Deists with atheism.

As you will note, God is not mentioned once in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. A Creator is mentioned, but not the Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other specific god.

It was never meant to be a Christian nation, but rather a nation where all religions may flourish of their own accord.

Answer 8

That's just the people that wish it were. Unless the right listed in the First Amendment was removed, I'm pretty sure freedom of religion's still there.

Answer 9

No. The country just became a "christian nation". The country assumes that their are more christians than not maybe.

Answer 10

no I didn't vote it out either.
"separation of church and state" is nowhere to be found.
this country had the bible and prayer until an atheist (O'Hara) went to the Supreme Court to have the bible and prayer thrown out of schools.Atheist are fighting to remove anything that is Christian (do some research).No one voted to remove prayer and the bible.The congress (legislative branch of government that is votes on laws) never voted to remove them either.Read the constitution to see what it says."Congress shall make no law...".The supreme Court is "allowed" to make laws presently.They have no constitutional authority to do so (abortion,gun control,euthanasia,PC stuff,etc. other examples).