Have you ever noticed the two different Versions Liberals give us on the Founding Fathers?

Question

Our friends on the left love to tell us how the Founding Fathers of America were Non-Christians who were the very foundation of modern liberalism. They were these open minded, free thinking men who embodied all of traits that were intended for all to embrace.

until....we speak of slavery of that era.........

suddenly...and without warning...these founding fathers...these signers of the declaration....these liberal hero's from the left are put through an evolution that would make Charles Darwin Cringe!!!!

NOW...they are right-wing, Republican, Christians who enslaved the black man!!!!!!!

Even the liberal hero Thomas Jefferson (owner of over 100 slaves) is quickly discarded...NO Father of theirs.....they say!


ever notice?

Answer 1

By unanimous vote of the 1797 US Congress and signed into law by President John Adams:

• “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,…”

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm

Now that the first issue is solved – name a liberal who claims that the Founding Fathers were all Christian conservatives.

Many of the Founding Fathers understood the hypocrisy of their ideals and the reality of their lives. The very fact that they could recognize complicated and difficult issues, and understood the ambiguities inherent in life made them both intellectually and morally superior to conservatives (who, if they had their way, would have remained subjects of the British crown).

Answer 2

The founding fathers drew up the Declaration of Independence on the principles of freedom. The early settlers of our continent came here to escape religious persecution so the founding fathers tried to perpetuate that thought as much as they could. I'm a Christian but that doesn't mean everyone who isn't is the enemy.

Slavery was a HUGE issue of debate among the founding fathers. Agreeing to disagree on this issue allowed the union of all 13 states to be formed with the idea that the discussion was to continue regarding whether slavery should be abolished. As history shows, over the next 80 years this issue became more heated until finally resulting in the bloodiest war ever in US history.

Answer 3

Try bringing up the dutch, french, Spanish and Africans who were the supply chain for the slaves.

Again with the civil war being about slavery... I had friends growing up that chanted this same BS mantra. Slavery was nothing but a convenient excuse.

Answer 4

No I hadn't noticed. The Founding Fathers were men of their age. They had an elevated sense of their own self worth and position in the grand scheme of the world. They embraced the Age of Reason at the same time they denied it to an entire race of people, who were not in their estimation equipped to handle that gift of enlightenment.

In so many ways, they are the quintessential Americans...so completely hypocritical and so completely oblivious to the that fact. It's the only way they could tolerate slavery and write that all men are created equal.

And we continue to honor our Founding Fathers with our own versions of complete hypocrisy.

Answer 5

Yes but that is only because modern liberals are not liberals but are instead Marxists. The ends justifies the means. Ask a true liberal, now called a Libertarian, and that double speak won't happen.

Answer 6

Don't they give us two different versions of everything? My example would be two Americas....

Answer 7

Um, no.