2007-10-17 11:08:33 · 2 answers · asked by Te Te 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa00.htm
2007-10-21 06:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there were many other reasons to why America was founded, such as profit and political freedom. Freedom of religion (pretty much Christianity) was a huge part of it. When the Great Awakening occurred, it also started the Enlightenment. This is what all the people who you were relating too believed in. The Enlightenment taught the opposite of the Great Awakening (in a way). The Great Awakening was all about Christianity where as the Enlightenment was more about man's ability to think. The people kind of twisted Christianity and changed it to how they wanted it to be. If the Bible taught something that they didn't agree with or something, they just discarded the idea and didn't listen. Two main beliefs under the Enlightenment were Deism and Unitarianism. Deism taught that God created the universe and everything, but once he finished making it, he never again intervened with anything he created. Unitarianism teaches that God is real, but there is no such thing as the Trinity. That Jesus was just a normal man. This is what Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, etc all believed. Those beliefs were kind of like a twisted spin off from Christianity. They took Christianity and changed it to fit what they wanted. But remember, America already had people here for Christianity before all of this happened. Most of the people were Christians in America. Just because those great people weren't, it doesn't mean America wasn't founded on Christianity.l
2016-05-23 05:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by velda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋