Such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein.
Not one of these men was a professing Christian, and most were very, very clear about it.
So how do you justify it?
2007-04-28 15:29:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because the people you name are better than Jim Bakker and Pat Roberson and all the rest who call themselves religious, so why not elect them to the team? They are all dead anyway, so who's gonna argue with them?
2007-04-28 15:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I haven't heard Christians claim anyone as "their own".
What do you mean?
In fact, of those you listed, I don't know any of them claiming to be a Christian. Some people might believe it about them because most were known to have said some things about "God" or "a God", so perhaps that is why.
I'm not sure what you mean by asking someone to "justify it." Seems like it would just be a mistake on their part.
2007-04-28 22:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all been lies from the beginning. I don't justify it. Founding fathers of what? Wasn't Mr. Einstein Jewish? Thomas Edison? Thank you, Tom. Quite wonderful things you thought of, with God's help.
2007-04-28 23:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Valerie W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainstream Christians have plenty of people in their ranks to admire. Presidents, MLK, Robert E Lee, MotherTteresa etc...
Atheists have a long list. So do deists and agnostics.
Then there's the fundamentalists. They can come up with, maybe Ronald Reagan, who paid them lip service but practiced no religion in his daily life. They can have him anyway. Who else do the have. No one of good moral standing. No one whose done anything to improve the world.
No great scientific minds. No great artists. No great academics. Nobody. And Jesus probably don't like 'em.
2007-04-28 22:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson, toward the end of his life, identified himself as a Unitarian in one of his letters.
Albert Einstein became a member of the Humanist Society of New York in 1941.
Adolf Hitler was a Roman Catholic. His strongest supporters were the "religious right" of Germany, the Evangelical Protestants. When Hitler addressed the Reichstag in 1938, he assured the legislators that he was sure that in what he was doing to the Jews he was acting on behalf of God.
2007-04-28 22:44:11 · answer #5 · answered by fra59e 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I read that Benjamin Franklin was a believer in God but didn't belong to any church.
2007-04-28 22:46:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was not aware of that..I most certainly would not want to claim a non christian as a christian.
2007-04-28 22:34:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It gives them the illusion of having a legitimate claim to rational, respected human beings.
2007-04-28 22:33:07 · answer #8 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
For a change of pace after claiming Hitler was an atheist.
2007-04-28 22:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Some people just aren't interested in true history if it doesn't fit their sense of reality.
2007-04-28 22:42:02 · answer #10 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋