Is the Costitutuion more important that the Bible in the USA?

Question

keeping in mind that we imprint "in God we Trust" on our currency and claim to be a nation founded on christain beliefs

Sorry for the typo I think faster than I type

Answer 1

We as believers should hope that the Constitution is more important to the country at large because their support of it protects our ability and right to follow the Creator God of the Bible in peace.

For True Believers, of course, the Bible is more important.

The problem is, that there are so many people who believe in false concepts not taught by the Bible claiming that they have the right to legislate what everyone else should do. It is scary that they obtained en ought power in the political arena to elect a deceiver like our current President. They do not see that they have insured the destruction of our country by their choice.

Answer 2

I'm going to give you the obvious logical answer: Not all Americans are Christian. The Bible is only important to Christians. To the rest of Americans, the Bible is not important at all. However, the Constitution is important to Christians and non-Christians alike.

The United States was not founded on Christianity. Article 11 of the treaty of Tripoli, which was approved by President John Adams and ratified by Congress in a unanimous vote on June 10, 1797 states, "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.." Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Peter Carr on August 10, 1787, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god." Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both known deists, and several other founding fathers are believed to have been Deists or influenced by Deist philosophy.

Answer 3

Yes, it is more important and we were not founded upon Christian beliefs.

The "In God We Trust" was put on our currency during the McCarthy years of the 1950s, as a result of the Red Scare.

Sputnik changed everything, but we forgot to remove the offending words from the currency. I just wipe them out with a Sharpie, making my bills Constitutional.

Answer 4

The Constitution is what makes us the United States of America and is the most important document of our society.

How someone choses to worship is the direct result of the Constitutional protection.

And, people can "claim" all they want...the Founders were especially careful to keep Christians and Christianity OUT of the Bill of Rights, and other documents.

You can Google Thomas Jefferson quotes or Madison, Franklin - even Washington to find out their opinion of the whacko christians of their day. I'll even provide a free one for you......:

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

and

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

---- I could go on, but, if you are interested enough to know the TRUTH, you can do your own research.

Answer 5

Who is this "we" who claim that this nation was founded on Christian beliefs.

Slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans a Christian belief ?

America was founded on enlightement ideals.

The constitution is the basis for our laws, NOT the bible.

Answer 6

We where founded on religious freedom. The Bible may be more important to christians, but the constitution was voted on, and approved by the people of the whole country.

Answer 7

We are a nation found by Christians and based on Christian teachings. This is why atheists, even when they don't claim to believe in God still follow a lot of his rules. I mean think about it, how many atheists don't commit adultry, they refrain from lying, and go out of their way to help people without the promise of reward (giving to the homeless, helping the Red Cross by donating blood, etc). Just remember that we may be punished by the Constitution in hindsight, we are guided by the Bible and it's teachings BEFORE we even get to breaking the laws of our country. I hope this helps and I will pray for you.

Answer 8

The USA was not "founded on Christian beliefs" and "In God We Trust" dates from the 1950s.

Answer 9

Jeebus, I would hope so. Remember that "in God we Trust" was not added to our currency until the country had been in existence (and the constitution ratified) for nearly 100 years.

Answer 10

Constitution, of course.

And we're not a nation founded on Christian beliefs.