Was north america populated and the nation formed and built by people with an overall core belief in God ?

Question

if so .. would there be possible negative implications in eradicating those beliefs?

Answer 1

well the Treaty of Tripoli was passed to give radical Muslims assurance that we would not have a religious war with them. 8 years later when it was re-ratified that line was taken out. here is what one of our most founding fathers said John Adams.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798


The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved


and you are right look at the thruth in John adams first qoute. as the furter we walk away from God. the more troubles we have encountred.

Answer 2

Yes. Most of the settlers were European and would have had an overall core belief in a Christian God.

You will never eradicate a core belief in any society. An attempt to do so would be a case of fundamentalist extremism. A fundamentalist approach will never succeed because there will always be those who oppose it.

An egalitarian approach and high quality education would encourage free form thinking and provide more tolerance and understanding in this world. Maybe then you wouldn't need to eradicate anything. :)

Answer 3

Yes.It is true that it was dedicated to the illuminati[celebrated on our 1 dollarbill may 1st,1776 was founding of it by Weishaupt],and that many were Deists and Masons;but many were Christians too.And even the non-Christians had a profound respect for Christianity.They did not want a separation of church and state.They simply wanted no established church as in England.That is easily proven by going over all the minutes of the constitutional convention and other records[public and private letters].As for your second question...they have been eradicated and we are seeing the negative effects each and every passing year since 1962.Only the extremely dense and illiterate can deny our Christian Heritage.But we are not a Christian nation,that is crystal clear.Our state religion has become Judaism whether people know it or not.And there is no such beast as Judeo-Christianity.Good question little one.

Answer 4

Yes it was. Our laws are also largely based on the biblical Israelite's legal system commandments, if you didn't notice.

Would there be negative implications?
Yes. Whenever a society destroys the very thing that was its foundation, it will crumble. Our nation was built by men who had a profound belief that God was blessing us with the gift of this country. As a gift from God, the founders expected us to give it its due respect. When we lose respect for God, we lose respect for our governent's foundation, and our society will crumble.

Answer 5

That is simply a historical fact,and in fact the process at least partly involved the development of a new culture,albeit European-derived. Obviously there are extreme hazards to undermining the native faith of this or any other culture,since history informs us that the dissolution of the traditional religion is inevitably the first step towards the disintegration of the culture as a whole. That phenomena is well-documented and,I might add,not difficult to understand,since almost everything a culture consists of rests upon a bedrock of consensus values which are in turn associated with and indeed often originate with the religion. If it goes,so does the value system. That this would essentially dissolve the culture itself is not difficult to understand. And the character of any emergent successor culture would be impossible to predict. It may be better,but it is more likely to be worse. Roman culture for example never even remotely succeeded in measuring up to the standard set by Greek culture. The pre-Islamic Arab folk culture that consumed Persian culture following the collapse of the Persian Empire would not even remotely compare with Persian culture.

Answer 6

North America was populated by people who had some God-concept but were anything but Christian. They butchered the bison and each other, and scrabbled out a meager living for thousands of years. Some farming, and their only domesticated animals were dogs. Each tribal group had its own God-concept.

Then the Europeans showed up and disease killed off more than half of the original population. Bringing horses, chickens and cows helped, however.

As for the nations formed here in the 18th century, the gov'ts were exported from EUrope (England, France, Spain). The myth that the US gov't was based on Christian principles is popular but is not strongly supported.

In fact it appears that the early colonial settlers to the US left religious oppression so they could live under even greater religious oppression - but their own.

Actually, the new US gov't was more liberal than the early settler Christians wanted. Many pre-US colonies had laws making it illegal to be Jewish or Catholic. This was tossed out in the Bill of Rights of the new US gov't.

Answer 7

Yes. Some may argue that the Indians where the true owners of this land but no one truly owns land but God and He will give it to whom ever He chooses. Man is flawed at best so he is destined to create social unrest and wars. When men and women begin to actually apply what Jesus taught, things become more civil. The more we deviate from this core the worse off we become. The moral structure in a GOOD Christian family helps to pass on healthy relationships to future generations. When this core becomes hopelessly corrupted down the generations, this country will waffle and fall regardless of the present state.

Answer 8

What God are you referring to because north america was first settled by Native Americans. They believe in many gods. Our fore fathers on the other hand did found our nation upon one christian God just like England. And I do not belive eradication of those beliefs would matter one way or another. We each have to find our own pathway to God no matter how or nation was formed.

Answer 9

Yes. But the overall core beliefs are being attacked daily. One Nation under God will soon say, One Nation of Ten omong the United Nations and the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, the Almighty God shall be smitten in the mouth of every believer and the people world wide will hail a new god, a false Christ, a newly awaited messiah who will make every knee bow to his alleigence and cause everyone to receive a mark in their right hand in order to buy or sell and those receiving this device which is already here, will be judged of God and those who reject it shall be jailed and forced to receive it by law..Yes, the people just as it was in the days of Pharoah and Moses, where God had to send plagues upon plagues before Pharoah and the people would listen, and only then, did it cost them the lives of their firstborn..What will it take to get the people to listen to God NOW? He is speaking but who is listening? Go to trumpetmin.org and click on could this be the mark, for those who are listening..

Answer 10

To answer your first question:
The railroads that connect our country, and made possible our initial expansion, were primarily built by Chinese labor. The Chinese, as you may or may not know, don't believe in your god.

To answer your second question:
There are always negative implication associated with the removal of a doctrine that encourages solidarity, however it is widely agreed that the strength of America comes not from a unified religious mindset, but from the merging and acceptance of diverse ideas from people of many different cultures and religions.

As we all know, mutts are always tougher than purebreeds.