then why did they give us Freedom of Religion? That obviously goes against the first and second commandment, yet they put it in the first amendment. (Yup I'm on a rant today. I love you all anyways.)
2007-07-19 07:32:17 · 10 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If they wanted us to be a Christian Nation then why wouldn't they have put the freedom of Christianity? Why use the word simply RELIGION.
2007-07-19 07:39:21 · update #1
One Nation under God was written 200 years later. Thats a pretty big gap ppl
2007-07-19 07:44:04 · update #2
You are on to something. Our Founding Fathers wanted our nation to be free from Religious Rule. That is why they separated Church and State and wanted people to have that Freedom. Most of our Founding Fathers were Deist.
2007-07-19 07:37:50 · answer #1 · answered by StormyC 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
most all of the laws in our constitution are based on Mosaic law. Without the Torah this nation would be a disaster, Laws and ethics is what make our country the best Nation on earth. We need freedom of religion because not every person experiences Gods presence in the same way. Hindu's love God, Jews love God, Catholics Love God. We werent created with cookie cutters. I believe that our founding fathers understood that and respected the differences in people and in differing views. Since this country is a country of Immigrants, we have to understand each other and accept each others differences. God is Love, Right wing republicans seem to forget that. Any group that thinks that they are the only "right" group is spreading hate, not love. Only love will make this country strong.
2007-07-19 07:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by loveneverfailsk 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Like Adams wrote
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.""
2007-07-19 07:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by John C 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
They didn't want us to be a Christian nation. Most of them were either Agnostic, Deist or Atheist. The United States is not, and never was, a Christian nation.
2007-07-19 07:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
maximum of our founders looked as though it could have self assurance that Christianity and reasonability went hand-in-hand. This lines all the before to Aristotle's rhetorical emblems, or argument from reason. The emblems became into seen to be the divine, spoken notice, subsequently the common translation of John a million:a million: "interior the commencing up became into the notice, and the notice became into with God, and the notice became into God." Philo of Alexandria, certainly one of Jesus' contemporaries, taught that the emblems became into akin to God. Paul, on the different hand, taught that Christ became into akin to God. so long tale short, emblems became an valid identify for Christ in early Christian theology. in case you think of there's a conflict between Christianity and reason, early Christian theology proves that reason has constantly been between the customary concerns of the religion.
2016-10-19 06:09:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't want us to be a Christian Nation.
Our founding fathers were LAWYERS, march them all into the oceans!
BUT, they didn't want the new nation to eventually BOW to one church.
2007-07-19 07:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Considering that the majority of the founding fathers were church members in good standing, I can believe that they wanted us to be a christian nation. They just didn't want the U.S. to establish an official national church.
2007-07-19 07:38:06 · answer #7 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Testify sister!
If they had wanted a state religion, they would have *established* a state religion, rather than go to great lengths to prevent such.
2007-07-19 07:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
It is a nation under god.
Well that's what they wanted anyway.
2007-07-19 07:41:41 · answer #9 · answered by Deaf Bug 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Our founding fathers were Rosicrucians.
2007-07-19 07:37:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋