is America a God inspired Nation?

Answer 1

Mostly.many people in the U.S. believe in God and they
are growing every day,,Thank God.

Answer 2

I think it used to be. People came here to escape religious persecution.
Our history is riddled with acts that are not Christian, not God-fearing, and certainly is so now.
There have always been incidents of such, but seems I think to have grown since the early 1800's, then the liberal theology that came from German influences in the latter half of that same century weakened further the church, and her influence on society. But I have said enough. It was a God inspired nation.

Answer 3

God is not mentioned one single time in the US Constitution or the Bill or Rights. The FIRST Amendment protects religion and our right to practice it with out the govt interfearance.
Christians believe in Universalism. Why would they have left GOD out if it was THAT important.
Perhaps.....it wasn't??
Then of course you have the Treaty of Tripoli Artcle 11 that sort of takes care of any doubts.

Answer 4

No. The writers of the constitution saw the dangers of mixing religion with politics. We now see the disastrous effects of the US forgetting this basic principle. Freedom of religion can only be guaranteed by a government that is completely neutral.

Answer 5

From where I'm sitting (in the UK) it looks like a God-obsessed nation that does more harm than good to the rest of the world.

Answer 6

It is a nation which traditionally was built by Christians, particularly Protestants (the western US was more Catholic)..... But I don't think America is a "godly" country or ever was truly a light upon a hill.

Answer 7

What US have done from end of WWII till now only proves that it is a *****-inspired nation. Many claim that it's founders were masonic.

Answer 8

No "god" inspired life on this speck of dirt I own in America.

With that said people have taken religion a bit far here. Sometimes its down right scary what some people will do in the name of their religion.

Answer 9

No. The founders deliberately excluded Christianity from the form of our government. Many of them were Deists and Freemasons who believed that each of us should worship according to our own conscience.

From John Adams:

"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
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". . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."
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The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
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We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions ... shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power ... we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.
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As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?
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The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.
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The Treaty of Tripoli:

"As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries....
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
-- Treaty of Tripoli (1797), carried unanimously by the Senate and signed into law by John Adams (the original language is by Joel Barlow, US Consul)
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James Madison:

"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."
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Thomas Paine:

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church. "
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"Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. "
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Thomas Jefferson:


"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."
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"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."
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It scares me that so many Americans are so poorly educated in American history that they don't understand that we are not, nor were we ever intended to be, a Christian nation. The founders were quite deliberate in protecting our government from the grasp of religion.

Answer 10

Of course. Why else would so many of the founders have built around God? And made it a free country so that people could choose their religion?

Answer 11

Only if god inspired them to intrude, try to destroy all inhabitants and take over. But that wouldn't be very Christian...