Do you think this country was started as a Christian nation or a not ? And why do you think that ?

Answer 1

One Nation under God! there is much more but this says it all.

Answer 2

No this country is not belt to be a Christian nation, this country was built to escape religious persecution. Our founding fathers may have been Christan and wont the country to be built on Christian values, but they did not want the country to have a national religion.

The reason they said they wanted the country to be built on Christian values is because they knew very little about other religions in the world.

Let me ask you what is the difference between the values of the major religions in the World. When i say the Major Religions I mean the one that have been around for thousands of years, not the Tom Cruise religions.

All the major religions believe that we should treat other the way you would want to be treated. In fact that is the number one rule in the major religions.

And this country was built on thous values.

Answer 3

This Country started as an enterprise. Religion nor the freedom thereof had nothing to do with the founding of this Nation. Colonists came here to make money by taking from the Indians and the land here. Remember the first colony was established by The Virgina Company. Religion came later when it was a convenient theme.

Answer 4

Religion is always being used to validate/support radical ideas.
Let's be honest, most immigrants came because they couldn't make it in their own countries.
They were of the following:- refugees,troublemakers, fleeing criminals, misfits, adventurers, entrepreneurs, visionaries and all the other flotsam and jetsom of the human race. And all looking for a new life where they could start afresh without the stigma they had left behind.
The fact that they brought with them the trappings of the Christian Faith was to be expected, that's what they were conditioned to in their previous homelands.

Answer 5

It was specifically organized to NOT be a Christian nation. It was set up with very strong freedom of religion. That phrase means that YOU may practice any kind of religion you want - and I, who am a nonbeliever, am free to have my beliefs. You, the believer, cannot force your religious views or ideas on me through any governmental means.... The law protects YOU and lets you believe - it protects ME if I am not a believer.

If you read the writings of some of the founders, you will see specific information on why "Christian" religions are to be avoided completely in the matter of government. Most of them were NOT Christians themselves; some had no beliefs at all but most were Deists.

Here's what Jefferson had to say - a few things anyway:

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

I could go on and give you quotes from several of the founders and others concerning this matter. But they are readily available online for anyone interested is WHY this is not a nation built on Christianity. I will leave you with this:

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

Answer 6

The question mis-supposes that "christian" is a single, homogenous religion. It isn't. The primary waves of colonists initially were the puritans/calvinists, anglicans, quakers, and presbyterians. They did not agree on many religious and political principles, and they did not sing kumbaya -- the demands for "freedom of religion" were to keep any of the other sects from interfering with any other colony. They did not come together to build a happy nation worshipping one god; they only banded together because the abuses from England were a bigger threat than those from each other.

Answer 7

Not by today's definition of Christian.
It was Christian by the definition at the time of the founding of this country.

They had no problem with Bibles in public schools or praying in schools.
Jefferson in his letter use chapter and verse references in his letters expecting the person on the other end to know the meaning.

Word change meaning over time. That is the trick of revisionists it is slide of hand trick. However, if you read about them they have far better handle on the Bible than most do today.

Answer 8

It was started by men who believed that a belief in God was very important to ethics and morals. Here is what John Quincy Adams said. "A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest ... state or national, because this is a religious people..." There are more examples if you look for them.

Answer 9

Just like the English fought to stave off Catholisism and begin the Church Of England, the Puritans came here to form their own brand of religion. Its very well chronicled.
Hasnt every war been tainted with religious hatred?

Answer 10

Yes it was founded by pilgrims and puritans (these were religions ppl). They came here because of discrimination against them in England, Germany, all of the european nations.( And of course elsewhere all over the world.) They came here for religious freedom.

In my opinion in god we trust is a useless thing to base our country on but not everyone feels that way.

Answer 11

Yes did you know that the very first census of this nation showed over 96% protostent, 2 % roman catholic and 1.2 Jewish that is over 99% accepting the same God.