These guys were a mixture of slave-owners, bootleggers, and lawyers. Very far from perfect, yet most of our society holds them up as model human beings.
I guess ~200 years can clean up anyone's image...imagine what 2000 years has done to the characters in the Bible?
2007-07-31 07:46:42 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To some of you: our Constitution is NOT in its original form...by my count it has been changed 27 times.
2007-07-31 08:38:28 · update #1
They were pretty specific about the dangers of the consolidation of power at the federal level, as I recall, as well.
2007-07-31 08:39:18 · update #2
People love the "appeal to tradition" logical fallacy.
2007-07-31 07:51:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
When you look at them as far as slave owning goes. Yes this was a bad thing but, all the churches told them it was good. The British government told them this was good. And most of them wanted to do away with slavery and they new that it would be solved by the next generation.
But, if this is all we are going to look at then throw away the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and most of the laws prior to 1900.
Now while they were not perfect they brought to the world the first democratic free country. While America by no means is perfect and has many,many skeletons in her closet this is a great country. We look to original intent when we talk about ideas of Constitution, Bill of Rights. Intent is what is important they wanted freedom, liberty.
No one is perfect but if you can take a noble idea and refine it and make it better in order to serve all citizens then these guys did a good thing. This does not out weigh the bad but they did make a difference and they should be remembered for that.
2007-07-31 07:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by dlee_75 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they were very far from perfect humans but the time period is intriguing for the collection of intelligent and educated people that made a change to the structure of society. The idea of representative government is obviously much older than 200 years ago but the structure of constitutional government was pretty revolutionary and had a major impact on the world.
2007-07-31 07:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well for one thing, other than Jesus no one in the Bible is without sin, David was a murderer and an adulterer, Noah was a drunk, Moses was also a murderer so I guess 2000 years doesnt clean up anyones image eh?
If an Atheist wants to talk about great acheivements of the Founding Fathers. They will say they were atheists or agnostics at best... but when they talk about the bad things they did ie bootlegging, slaving owning, well then of course they were Christians ;)
2007-07-31 07:55:34 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, they're being used.... people pick apart what they wrote and try to use it to Prove how right they are. Though, I find some of their writings interesting... and they are important to the point that we should know where our gov't has come from... the starting point and what people thought, why they thought it was a good thing to dump all religion and try to make a secular nation. It is amusing though that "all men are created equal" was written by a slave-owner.... but then, the Bible is supposed to have been written by people whom I would consider less the "good"... Moses murdered a man while in Egypt... then ticked God off to the point that he wasn't allowed in the "Promise Land"... King David stole another man's wife (yet God said he's a man after his heart... go figure)... But, people who follow those people based on a concept will overlook anything bad that person does... they will be quick to forgive them, while if you or I did those exact same things, we would be sent to hell for sure. *wink* It's all in how one uses it... if they think they will gain support, they will overlook anything.
2007-07-31 07:58:05 · answer #5 · answered by River 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, I liked the Founding Fathers, and not all of them were slave-owners, bootleggers or lawyers. Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine were born poor and made their own money.
What I don't like is to hear them misquoted when it comes to religion and its place in our history. Most of them were Unitarian
Universalists or agnostics. When they used the word "GOD," it meant "highest of human morals." They purposely put in place the line between church and state to distinguish our country from the monarchy and theocracy of England.
As for the bible, I can't comment on that, as I don't believe those things happened.
2007-07-31 08:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 03:06:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Good point. I know the bad stories about the founding fathers (learned it from an unorthodox history teacher, he rocked), but never took it that next step to the people in Bible.
You get a star for thinking outside the box.
2007-07-31 08:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are the only country in the world that still has their original Constitution. This is because the founding fathers were smart. They realized that the future would bring about different trains of thought. This adaptation allows for an evolution that even they could not comprehend, but still they allowed for change to be brought about.
2007-07-31 07:52:00 · answer #9 · answered by Don B 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well they happened to found a nation of freedom on one of the last large chunks of "available" land on the planet. By following the guidenlines set by these founding fathers, this new nation of freedom has been able to rise up as a major world power and is now thought of by many to be the greatest nation in the world.
2007-07-31 07:52:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's very annoying how these people are looked up to as some sort of demi-gods. You might like a book called The Lies My Teacher Told Me. It does'nt go directly over to the other side and condemn these people, but instead discusses their possibly undeserved hero-ification.
2007-07-31 07:51:10 · answer #11 · answered by a 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋