Where in the Constitution does it say that the US is a nation founded on Christian beliefs?

Question

This seems to be the theme of the current presidential campaign, but doesn't this go against what the founders of the US intended.

Can someone show me where the founders identified the US as a Christian nation?

Answer 1

The United States was not founded on Christian beliefs. The Founding Fathers were largely Deists who had an extreme distrust of the British monarchy (which, incidentally, heads the Church of England). This is why there is separation of church and state in the US, and it is codified in the First Amendment.

In this country that is culturally - and religiously - diverse, Christianity is the majority religion. I can't explain why that's the case, but just having Christianity as a majority religion does NOT make you a Christian nation. I can tell you that the religious leaders that preach hate and intolerance - the Falwells and Robertsons of the world - cannot truly call themselves Christians because that's not what Christ was about.

Answer 2

It is not stated outright, no. God and God's laws are mentioned all throughout starting with the Declaration of Independance. One could draw an implication from that and that's what is being done.

But if one reads Jefferson's papers (and others of his day who were instrumental in building this nation) one would find that the intent was to create a country and political system that loosely followed religious mores and laws (since they considered those to be as good or better than anything they could have made up - why re-invent the wheel) it was actually to be a state without a religion. Hence the specific instruction in the Bill of Rights about separation of church and state.

In fact, in all the documents that are relevant (DoI, Constitution and Bill of Rights) the only direct mention of the relationship between the church and the state is the one that clearly states they are to be separate and apart.

Answer 3

LOL please back up that first fact. And sure rational people do have faith in a God. i can enable you to comprehend i'm only as rational as you, which you may declare superiority because of the fact which you suspect in some rubbish that basically teenagers and school liberal hippies have faith is short-sighted and boastful. I definitely do no longer care approximately what you suspect, yet once you may desire to make a stupid fact then you definately only could desire to close up. Now, to respond to your question: To state that u . s . of america wasn't a minimum of stimulated by employing the Judeo-Christian worldview may be a facetious declare. thinking a majority of people interior the late 18th century have been in fact Christian, it may basically be assumed that the values and tenets of Christianity might impression the first lives of the persons. at the same time as sure the founding fathers weren't all Christian, and this u . s . replace into based on the perfect to worship, there is a minimum of a few style of a Judeo-Christian impression. Now, reliable day sir.

Answer 4

Find the text of the Constitution online and then run "edit" "find" for the word God. http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

That will show you every reference to God in the Constitution. It won't matter what you find though - some people are convinced that somehow the facts don't matter. What matters is what they want to believe.

Note: You won't find "creator" in the constitution either. The question asked "where in the Constitution" not where in the Declaration of Independence. So, no, you do not find reference to God or God's laws in the Constitution. There's a link in this post to the text and it is not tedious to run "find" on the text. Those who think it's in there - search it and see. You can't argue that something is there that we can all see is not there - that's the height of ignorance.

Answer 5

nothing whatsoever but if they can capitalize on it and win votes, why not. majority of us will not check the constitution - its too tedious so the masses will believe what these vote-hungry pple say.
this is also to ride on the strong religious tradition that is in usa as compared to europe. many voters esp the masses still adhere to some form of christianity. hence its a vote-getter!

Answer 6

“We are endowed by our Creator…”

The Founding Fathers were Christians, so pretty much everything they believed could be said to be “Christian beliefs.” However, this doesn’t mean that everything a Christian believes is unique to a Christian perspective or inherently “religious.” For example, most people believe “thou shalt not kill” is a pretty good rule and doesn’t violate the church/state relationship. Further, Wiccans might worship the environment but that doesn’t make the EPA a church/state violation. :-)

Answer 7

Nowhere, it lays out the foundation of a secular nation.