Why do Christians think that this country was FOUNDED on "Christianity"?

Question

Are there any christians out there who realize that the term "God" was loosley used. As like 'god" whether if be a christian, roman, jewish, catholic, spanish, indian, KAZAKTAN, etc god...not "christianity"

or is this ignorance at its best?

Answer 1

Thomas Paine was an avowed atheist. Despite being a major influence of both the French and American Revolutions, he died alone, shunned by those he helped fight for freedom. He wrote, " I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."

Thomas Jefferson created his own version of the Gospels, called The Jefferson Bible, which excludes all references to miracles, Jesus' divinity, the resurrection, etc. He rejected everything except Jesus' moral teachings. He wrote, "I have examined all the known superstitions of the Word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature."

The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams and ratified by the Senate includes these words, "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."

Benjamin Franklin, a Deist, wrote, "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches" and "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

Ethan Allen said, "I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian, except mere infant baptism makes me one; and as to being a Deist, I know not strictly speaking, whether I am one or not."

If the Founding Fathers were good Christians, well read in the Bible, maybe they should have paid a bit more heed to the following verses before starting a rebellion against their government:

1 Samuel 15:23 - "For rebellion as is the sin of witchcraft."

Romans 13:1 - "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resist authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."

1 Peter 2:13 - "For the Lord's sake accept the authority of every human institution, whether of the emperor as supreme, or of governors, as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right."

Answer 2

Look at yaabro's answer. Does that tell you?
I think Benjamin Franklin claimed himself as Christian but attended parties thrown by Satanists, was a Freemason and a womanizer. George Washington was a Freemason but claimed himself as a Christian (I'm not sure about that though) I am pretty convinced that freemasonry definitely had more influence on our country's' beginnings than any particular religion.

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Just to clear things a little...only 1/2 of the first settlers were coming for religious reasons and by the time the founding fathers started their independence war, one of the main reasons for getting away from England and starting their own country is so that gov't could not be ruled by ANY religion.

Answer 3

Well this question comes up a lot and my best answer is how can you not believe our country was founded in Christian beliefs.

From the signing of the founding documents, all government employees and elected officials take a Christian oath, we swear on a Bible in court, ( A Christian Bible ), Our president swears on a Christian Bible as he takes office, our country celebrates Christian holidays and they are federal holidays,
all of our public schools had prayer time until the left wing retards got their way though our courts but not by votes, we set up work weeks according to the Christian calender, we have a Christmas break from school and an Easter break,
( you can not deny this because the Easter break is adjusted each year according to what Sunday Easter falls on ), Swearing is a crime, ( taking the Lords name in vain, although seldom prosecuted ), many states have laws that refer to Christian beliefs, etc and etc.

Answer 4

Because everyone on the Mayflower was a Puritan? Or maybe it's because the founding fathers decided that Scripture would be the basis for the Constitution. No no, that's absurd. It's simple fact. God was never used as a loose term by the founding fathers it always meant God, I don't know who told you that but you were sold a bridge with that one. Even the secular counter-christian public education system says that America was founded on Christian principles.

And for the Tripoli guy above me. Um, no. That's was quite a bit after the Mayflower bud, and a good 20 years after the founding of the nation. Not to mention Article 11 isn't about what the Nation was birthed of, rather it was about what the nation recognizes as it's responsibility to govern. Read the whole article, not just the first sentence in the article.

Answer 5

Ignorance at it's best, dear. this is what christians have been taught and they are sticking to it. Think about a little baby, you could teach that baby that the color blue is called yellow and that baby would believe it no matter what anyone else said, simply because you told him/her that was true. Doesn't make it true for anyone else and it doesn't make it a fact. Then what if that baby grows up and teaches other babies that blue is called yellow? Pretty soon you have a bunch of babies that are calling the color blue, yellow. They are all wrong, but they think they are right and pretty soon there are churches and banners and signs and otherwise rational people are starting to wonder if they have been wrong all along and it just escalates from there. Voila, a cult has formed and no one really remembers how it all got started.

Answer 6

Well, the word God is no where in our Constitution. It apprears once in the Declaration of Independence, in reference to "Nature's God," a deliberatly ambiguous phrase. The truth is that the founders fought hard to establish the country on secular principles.

It is not ignorance, but willful ignorance. The difference is that if they were ignorant, this could be forgiven, but they are deliberatly fighting for something that they know is not true. They are actively creating a fiction to base their beliefs on, and for the specific reason to push an agenda. Ignorance is far less sinister than the Dominionist's real motivators.

Answer 7

As a Christian woman, my only response to you is that we don't THINK that this country was founded on Christianity, we KNOW that it was. There is only one GOD and He is not, nor will He ever be a just "a term to be loosely used." My prayer is that you find Him and get to KNOW Him because it's obvious that you don't KNOW anything about Him.

And by the way, since the word ignorance means "not knowing", we Christians aren't the ignorant ones!!

Answer 8

enable's see what maximum excellent Evangelical Tony Campolo has to assert on the subject: “collectively as that's actually genuine that the subculture of united statesa. replaced into fantastically inspired via Christianity in the time of the Revolution and early nationwide sessions, the founders of our u . s . a . made it a undemanding concept that neither Christianity nor the different faith might ever be exact because of the fact the 1st rate faith of our u . s . a .. Christian values presented a foundation for the severe humanistic values that are inherent in our nationwide character, notwithstanding that's incorrect to call united statesa. a Christian u . s . a .. it could particularly be argued that our thought of democracy replaced into derived as lots from the philosophies of the Enlightenment as from the Bible. particularly, historians let us know that decrease than 15 p.c. of those residing here in 1776 have been contributors of any church.” Tony Campolo, Letters to a youthful Evangelical (large apple: undemanding Books, 2007), 220.

Answer 9

Alrighty then! Since you are going to make an assertion, please provide some links or names of printed resources so I can investigate and either verify or falsify your claims! Thanks! Incidentally, I saw your response regarding the "non supernatural causation axiom," and while I can certainly guess what it means, I didn't get any good hits by Googling it - that is, I didn't get any concrete definitions. Could you direct me to a better source?

Tom

Answer 10

Uneducated about the beliefs the men who founded the country held.