Should the US be a "Christian nation"???

Question

Should our country's laws be based on those laws and beliefs of the Bible? For those of you who believe we are a "Christian nation" here in America, please take note of the Roman Empire and how Constantine co-opted and corrupted Christianity for his own purpose of staying in power. It happened then, it will happen again if we let it. Separation of Church and State is meant to protect religion from politics and politics from religion. Those who don't remember/learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. Are we? Agree? Disagree?

Answer 1

Thanks to our wonderful constitution and plenty of reinforcement over time this will never be a "Christian nation" as you defined it. It would be stupid to ruin what has worked pretty well for over 200 years. Those who would try are those who wish to destroy what makes this country great. It would also be the downfall of some of the rights we have too in my opinion. I think that the first amendment our greatest right would be the first to go.

Answer 2

Actually the "Separation of Church and State" is part of the former Soviet Union's Constitution (article 50 something), It was intended to protect the official state religion of Atheism.
. It has not and never has been part of the Constitution of the Unites States. If that was the intent of the writers they would have not written " in the year of our Lord" on the date in Article VII so recognition of Christ is actually articulated in the Constitution and it is denied by our courts.
. After the Constitution was written state governments had to write their own constitutions and every state in the union refers to God in the preamble of their constitution The writers of the U. S. Constitution were alive and familiar with the constitutions written by the states and would have spoken out against constitutions that had preambles that included the word "God" if their intent had been "a separation of church and state". Their writtings or recorded testimonies would surely have mentioned it somewhere and none did.
The U.S. Constitution did prohibit the government of the United States from declaring a particular denomination as the official religion but the state of Virginia had an official church denomination for many years after the state constitutions were ratified.
. Christianity is America's heritage and this multiculturalism is showing giving us Virginia Tech murders and a loss of American identity and our heritage. Our American heritage is being ripped apart with liberalism and socialism.
What is next gun control?

Answer 3

Only if you want to live in a place that looks a whole lot like Afghanistan. The most extreme interpretation of the laws of the Koran are virtually identical to the laws of the Bible.

Those who argue for a christian theocracy are those who have either never read the Bible or are too stupid to understand it, believing it to be no more than a few 'feel good' stories about some long-haired Caucasian snuggling with lambs in a meadow.

The fact is that the activities they currently involve themselves in on any given Sunday would undoubtedly make them subject to summary execution under Biblical law.

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Answer 4

Although there is really nothing wrong with the basic Christian laws regarding the 10 commandments, establishing a government as a Christian government is not a good idea. Governments, by nature, must sometimes compromise against it's principals. Christianity should never do that. It would make the government intolerant. Governments should be tolerant.

I'm not saying Christians are intolerant because we aren't. But there are somethings we, as Christians, can't accept.

Answer 5

Absolutly not! What a horrible idea that would be, to make this country a "Christian Nation". Think about how people who follow other religions would feel? Horrible, at least thats what I think. America was founded on freedom, and it should stay that way. And that's something that will never change, no matter how many Christians there are in America, there will always be people that chose a different path.

Answer 6

It should not be,why? Because being a country of the free, America should always be the model of all nation. No country should excercise "no freedom for one's right on religion or belief". However, there are still other who they think their country is controlled by their religion especially those in some arab country. To control religion is like being a racist too, the same way other who believes in being a racist in the color of our skin.

Answer 7

No! A separation of church and state for 1. Number 2 of christianity was to become the religion what's to prevent anyone religious sect from trying to take control???

Answer 8

Depends what you mean. 95% of the country defines itself as Christian, and many of those values are reflected in the evolution of our nation an its institutions. To the extent that our laws and cultural values should reflect the composition of the country, yes. Realistically, the majority is going to insist on seeing its values projected into daily life, whether right or wrong.

However, our founding fathers were no idiots and recognized the explicit and implicit dangers to minority religious views if the views of the majority were adopted as law.

In my case, I am a Christian, but like to see government operate indepently of any religion. Were I Hindu, Mormon, or (gasp) Muslim in this country, I would deeply resent being alienated by the laws of a country I cherish and pay taxes to. This view seems consistent with Christian doctrine, which teaches us to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Answer 9

the final public of yankee "Christian" church homes and their attenders are so far from actual Christianity that they might desire to not additionally be waiting to declare to be Christian. They pontificate one in all these gentle, sugar lined gospel that early believers might get ill from all the candy that passes for preaching in the present day. human beings in the present day choose the fact and maximum can see excellent with the aid of a liar so they're leaving the mainline "candy production unit" denominations and searching for the actual deal. regrettably even a lot of Non-denominational and so called pentecostal preachers have additionally fallen into uncomplicated-believeism so the human beings do not comprehend the place to coach, maximum of contain turning their backs on God and leaving the church. regrettably as a results of fact of fake doctrines like eternal protection, lots of people who're leaving are doing so questioning that on the grounds that they as quickly as mentioned a prayer, they're nevertheless going to heaven, even however they now not persist with God's notice. The Bible mentioned this might ensue, that throughout the final of the final days, there'll be a brilliant falling faraway from the religion. So this comes as no marvel to those persons who comprehend the Lord and His notice.

Answer 10

Those in the nation can be Christian, but the Nation cannot.

The Constitution forbids it. Thomas Jefferson wrote:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.

Answer 11

No, our nation should not become a "Christian nation." That would violate the basic principle of freedom from religious persecution, which is very important to our country.

While most of our laws are based on the ten commandments, this would be true of any Western society or culture as Western morality is also based on the ten commandments. This does not mean that our nation is or should become a Christian nation.