Why can’t people accept that this country was founded on Christianity?

Question

Massachusetts common wealth state persecuted Catholics and sometimes killed Quakers because they were not accepted as Christians. Baptist and Deist like Thomas Jefferson are responsible for our religious freedom. The Salem witch trials were by people who called them self Christians.

Answer 1

This country was founded on Christianity, but many cannot accept it because they would rather do what is against Christianity, meaning, instead of following and obeying God's law, they would rather live their lives being immoral and sinful. Our society today is proof of that. Look at the homosexuals - they constantly shove their immorality down everyone's throat, forcing the issue of homosexual marriage, which is NOT the true sanctity and institution of marriage. It only defames and dessicrates it. Unfortunately, many people have been convinced that it's ok to be a homo and to live that kind of life - even same sex marriage being acceptable - how naive and ignorant people are to the meaning of morality
God blessed our country with the freedom we have, but unfortunately, even many of our freedoms are slowly being erased - freedom of speech, religion, etc. Society is fast going to the dogs.

Bottom line is, this country was founded on Christianity, but unfortunately, this is no longer the Christianity-based nation that it once was - SOOOOOOO far from it.

Answer 2

Massachusetts common wealth state persecuted Catholics and sometimes killed Quakers because they were not accepted as Christians. - Probably an action taken by those that call themselves "true" Christians.

Baptist and Deist like Thomas Jefferson are responsible for our religious freedom. Which is why Jefferson was so adimant in the Treaty of Tripoly when saying that this country "was in no way a Christian country"

The Salem witch trials were by people who called them self Christians....
They called themselves Christians because they WERE Christians. Just because your religion is used by people to do negative crap, does NOT make them any less Christians.

Answer 3

That is true about Massachusetts, it is also the reason why the framers of the constitution were determined to separate Church from State.
They figured if they did not prevent the attempts to make USA a theocracy it would dissolve into religious wars just like the ones which had only recently ended in Europe.
The history of the religious warfare between pre-revolutionary American colonies is remarkably bloody. The only state at the time founded with freedom of worship was Rhode Island.

Answer 4

Much of the country was colonised by Christians. That is not the same thing.

One of the key concepts that the founding fathers wanted to get away from was a state religion. Look at the motto of the British royal family - Dieu est mon droit - God is my right.

In other words, whatever the king does is his god given right. Now this had been hampered somewhat by the Magna Carta, and again by the setting up of Parliament after the British civil war, but still, at the time, the king wielded huge amounts of power as the head of the church.

By setting up a secular society they could avoid this 'I can do it because God says so' basis for power.


It is only recently that Richards like Coulter, Katherine Harris and Bush Jr have really started playing this card. It came back to bite Harris big time.

Answer 5

This country was founded on the freedom to choose. True many of the founding fathers were christians, and many of those beliefs were present in the creation of the Constitution. Nothing is more blatent in this as the pledge of alligence and even our currency. In God we trust is written all over our founding. They also set that the government would never be run by the church like it was in England and Italy. We live in a very diverse time in our nations history, when this country was founded, almost everyone here was considered a christian.

While this country was found partially based on the principles of Christianity, remember the ten commandments are just a rip off of the code of hammurabi written over a thousand years before anyone even heard of Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

this country was NOT founded on christianity. Our founding fathers were deists, thomas jefferson, deist, did write the declaration of independence.
Besides in the sixteenth century, being an atheist was not an option because you could not run for office, same as it is today. catholics are christians, what is your point with that? Yes, majority of the criminal events in that century was by christians, there were lots of christians who came to the united states running from persecution by fellow christians but that doesn't mean our founding fathers were themselves christians, most of them weren't. They were mostly deists

Answer 7

A country, like people progresses and grow. North America is now a very diverse country and many are from other countries with other religions other than Christianity. Progression is part of the overall plan, I believe, and diversity is a wonderful way to show human beings that we all belong to the same family.
History is just that, History. This world does not stand still in the same place, it moves on and progresses. It is up to the non-judge mental, non-prejudicial, forgiving, compassionate people of this world (in other words positive!) to do their part in making this world a better place.
That means unconditional love. Every religion has a negative side and every religion has a positive side. Let us take the best of all and use it in our daily lives, so that History won't repeat itself, to often.

Answer 8

I think the asker is being facetious with this question, because, if you pay attention, everything in his details describes what a true Christian would NOT do. That being said, this country was founded on the premise of religious freedom, not Christianity. Christianity just happened to be the dominant religion, so it got all the credit.

Answer 9

Because it wasn't, and only willful ignorance could make someone assert otherwise. Do you even know what a Deist is?

From the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by Gerorge Washington in November, 1796:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

In 1785, Madison wrote in his Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments:

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."

Dr. Priestley, an intimate friend of Ben Franklin, wrote of him:
"It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers"

Answer 10

This country was founded by religious people who wanted religious freedom. In Europe they were not allowed to follow their own beliefs. Therefore while loosely speaking most all of them dervied from the Christian faith-clearly they were most interested in keeping ANY religion from any religion having a special signficance to the government. That is, they did not want a government mandated or subsidized religion. that is why non-Christian citizens object at times to the use of Judeo-Christian themes in goverment.

Answer 11

Treaty of Tripoli

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

1797