How do US Atheists feel knowing their country is based on Christianity?

Question

Does it bother you knowing that your money says "In God We Trust"? That your constitution is rooted in religion? Do you care? Have you considered moving to a more "non-religious" country?

P.S. I am not saying you should....I'm not American. I'm just curious.

"You should take a history class before you come on here making ignorant statements." I actually never had to take US history in high school. US history is usually taught to those that actually live there. I don't need to take it for my University degree either. I'm not ashamed to admit I'm wrong. How can I learn if I don't ask questions? Also, I have seen MUCH more ignorant questions on here.

P.S. I honestly had no idea that US coins did not always have "IGWT".

P.P.S. Why would I look up to GWB? A) I'm not an American and B) George W. Bush and his "ideals" and "tactics" scare the living &^%$ out of me.

Missgigg...That's what I thought too. That the US has very strong ties and roots in faith.

Answer 1

That's a lie spread by politically-minded Christian fundamentalists. The USA was established as a country free of religious rule within the government.

Answer 2

It bothers me to think people dont even know US history and want to ask these types of questions. You are not from the US so I forgive you....I have a bigger problem with US citizens who think this and argue it.
Money part is true...I dont care as it is all spendable. Its actually ironic as the US is very materialistic and many would say "money is the root of evil" so I actually get a chuckle out of it.
The constitution has no religious background to it and many authors of it were considered in thier day religious skeptics.

Answer 3

I think you are mistaken. The US is not 'based' on religion but actually on the freedom of religion and individual freedoms. There is a difference. Unlike so many other countries in the world there is no state sanctioned religion (although many here are seriously trying to change that). As an atheist, religion per say does not bother me. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs. Was is disturbing recently is that the religious right is so set in trying to impose thier narrow beliefs on the population.

Answer 4

Treaty of Tripoly 1797 ratified by US Senate and Signed by the President of the United States John Adams.

Article 11, reads:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"

You should take a history class before you come on here making ignorant statements.

Answer 5

Usually Atheists only refute the existence of God when they are pushed or challenged in a negative way.

It is mostly the Holier Than Thou Extreme devotees of Abrahamic Lineage religion that go out of their way to destroy the belief systems of others and insist that those "others" follow their way. You dont see a Hindu going... " Hey, Believe in Shiva or suffer the flames of hell" or a Buddhist yelling, " Repent to Buddha or doom is what you get!!"

Most atheists I know couldnt give two hoots about whether the country believes inGod or not, as long every citizen is given equal rights and benefits. Most atheists are more concerned about making a living for themselves and their loved ones, ensuring the community is a pleasant and comfortable place to live in and doing whatever they can to diminish humanity frokm destroy the earth from careless living.


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Answer 6

Doesn't bother me any. I learned about it too in high school govermont class. It's also based a little on the Byzantine Emperor Hannibles rule's as well. I find the whole thing fascinating rather then horrifying. I wonder how many answers that will be denials on here of people who don't know this.

Answer 7

I'm from Canada and I have lived in the US for close to 10 years and I have had to learn American history for my citizen test.

America was not founded of Christianity at all. In fact they wanted to keep religion completely out of it. The Constitution is not religiously based at all. They are about freedoms not rules from an invisible sky daddy.

In God We Trust and the 10 commandments in courts came after the founding fathers were long gone and I am sure they are rolling over in their graves about it. They wanted the church out of government out of education and out of peoples courtrooms.

Answer 8

The US is based on English Law, not Christianity. The phrase on the money bit is actually against our Constitution and will be deleted some day.

Yes, I'd prefer to live in a more secular society because it's safer for citizens. But I was born here and will do my best to change it for the citizens to come.

Answer 9

This country IS NOT based on Christianity, although there are those who think so. The pilgrims or puritans were not Christians, they were just people who wanted to worship their God in their own way. Most people cannot separate God from Jesus Christ. God is God, he supposedly sent messengers such as Jesus, or Mohamed but it is all the same Look up the word Deist or Theist in your dictionary or check it on the interned.

Answer 10

How do Christians feel that their cultural matrix, particularly the cultural disruption of the protestant reformation, was the condition for the possibility of the atheism of modernity? Suggested Reading: "Theology and Social Theory" by John Milbank and "Evil: An Alternaitve History of Philosophy" by Susan Neiman.