If America was based on religion and christianity, why have all of our values changed?

Question

Why is everyone getting divorced, who claim to be devout Christians. Why are we so greedy and ignore the homeless on the streets when we claim to be so moralistic and altruistic. Why were so many boys molested by priests? Why are christians so scared of change and differences in people? Why when we founded America, the south had slaves? I mean would Jesus have slaves. Why do republicans only care about money and power, but then they say they are the religious right? I wonder why many educated and successful Americans turn their backs to the church, now that i see the truth about the real christianity.

Answer 1

men bend "faith" in a thing called "religion" real Christans not self proclaimed ones, are led by God's Spirit and live a Christan life.
sadly not all who "claim" to be Christans are. Jesus said" not everyone who Say's Lord Lord will enter in, but those who do the will of my Father" and brotherly love is the key.
Peace & Love

Answer 2

Joe D, I have to say it's good to see someone wondering the same questions. My take is that America has opened itself up to so many spirits that unless you have a relationship with God, and know him, you have no chance of being truly happy and content. Therefore, all these peope that are shouting Im a Christian, and not, are seeing the results.

Answer 3

America wasn't based on religion and Christianity. The Founding Fathers were largely Christian, but part of the idea of America is that the state itself (not the population of the states, but the government) would be secular.

America sucks because humanity sucks. Simple as that.

Answer 4

Perhaps God does things from the inside out; man does a limited thing from the outside; the two in America for many people do not match.

Answer 5

(2 Timothy 3:1-7) . . .But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. 6 For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, 7 always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.


(1 John 5:19-20) . . .We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one. 20 But we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us intellectual capacity that we may gain the knowledge of the true one.. . .

So we see that things are only getting worse. No human can make things better.Only God will be able to fix what man kind is doing to themselves

Answer 6

If you read your Constitution you will find that America was not based on religion and Christianity, anything but! It is religion - particularly fundamentalist Christianity - that is responsible for most of America's woes. Get rid of religion and you might become civilised.

Answer 7

Why don't we still have slaves? God liked slaves. He talked about them a lot in the bible. Why do we let women hold jobs? It says in the bible that they can't teach a man. Why can't we kill our kids for talking back? It's right there in Exodus. Why do we eat shrimp? It's an abomination, right there in Leviticus next to homosexuality.

Morals based on the bible are not morals at all. You have to THINK about your ethics and act accordingly, not get it from a book.

Answer 8

Boy. That's some nice stream-of-consciousness prose.

Answer 9

"The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted.”
Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor. Interview with Mike Wallace, 1958.

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, pt. 1, "The Author's Profession of Faith" (1794).

“It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.” Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Quoted in: J. A. C. Brown, Techniques of Persuasion, ch. 11 (1965)

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity." Thomas Jefferson

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
-- James Madison

“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant - baptism and holy communion - must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel.”
Gary North - Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (1989)

“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.”
Randall Terry - The News Sentinel, (Fort Wayne, Indiana), August 16, 1993.

“We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.”
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan. Washington Post, May 24, 1981.

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The Mayflower Compact was not the Declaration of Independence nor was it the Constitution.

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 10

I'll sum it all up. Satan knows he has a short time to get as many people as he can to join him in hell. Misery loves company. People are falling for his lies.