for those who think that American was not ever a Christian nation, read this?

Question

Proclamation of National Thanksgiving

George Washington

City of New York, October 3, 1789

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks so much for posting this. It grieves me when I see people post things to the effect that this country was never founded on God. God bless America and God bless you, dear one.

Answer 2

The most oft quoted authority in the Constitutional Congress was the Bible. The most oft quoted book of the Bible was Deuteronomy, a book of laws.
The second most oft quoted authorities were Locke, Montesquieu and Blackstone. All of them professing Christians who wrote voluminous amounts on the Bible and the Christian Faith..
I Cr 13;8a
Ps 122;6
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Anyone who would suggest that the USA is anything other than a Christian Nation is just plain ignorant. Sorry, no offense to anyone.

EDTI: OUT TA HERE, has omitted certain facts in her answer.
With respect I will include them here.
Benjamin Franklin as Governor or Pennsylvania issued an executive order that the Bible be the official text of all Public Schools in that state. The Christian Bible, both OT and NT.
Thomas Jefferson requested the Congress of the United States to issue funds to two Roman Catholic Priest Missionaries so that they could preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the American Natives in and around the State of Virginia.
11 of the original 13 State Constitutions recognized the God of the Bible as their Creator.
Thomas Paine recanted his famous work "Common Sense" before he died and stated "that he had made peace with his
creator"
Noah Webster(Dictionary) and other early Americans among the founding fathers could quote the Bible, chapter and verse.
Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death", stated
"that this country was not founded by religionists on religion, but by Christians on the Christian Faith"
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The founding fathers very wisely separated Church and State.
But very wisely recognized the God of the Bible as the giver of life and of the "inalienable rights" which are mentioned in
the founding documents of this greatest nation on God's Green Earth.

Answer 3

Does this actually prove anything Christian? I mean, really, Jesus, Christ, Christian, , etc. is NOT mentioned anywhere!! "great and glorious Being..." I just so happen to view my gods and goddesses as a great and glorious being. All that you've showed here is that this holiday was developed to thank a deity - doesn't say anything about a Hebrew deity - for all that we have. EVERY religion has a day of thanks - usually around the time of harvest to thank the gods and goddesses of the harvest for what we have. Funny, isn't thanksgiving DURING THE HARVEST!?

Answer 4

Read Article 11 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm
Treaty of Tripoli - Ratified by the U.S. Senate and Signed by President John Adams


"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 tranquility 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."

Answer 5

Holy cow.... ???

..and I though Thanksgiving was arranged as a day to coincide with the professional and college football schedules.... I never suspected it had anything to do with honoring an idol or anything.

But did you recognize that this calls for a one-time celebration on Thursday, the 26th of November, 1789.? That day is long gone... so no worries.

Bring on the turkey -- On with the games.

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Answer 6

Please note: General Washington was, at most, a Deist. There is nothing in this proclamation that mentions Christ or Christianity.

The Founders worked very studiously to keep the Christians out of any mention in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

See a coupla things Thomas Jefferson has to say about the struggle against the Christians of his day:

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

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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

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The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

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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 you can explore for yourself. Also read the writings of Madison, Benjamin Franklin and other Founders of the time.

Supposing, of course, you want to know the truth.

Answer 7

easily, George Washington, is a touch undesirable occasion ie. he owned slaves, and he insisted on whipping his very own slaves who at cases ranaway... Washington additionally persecuted former Loyalists, and he did no longer recommend that ladies human beings could be allowed even the uncomplicated rights of balloting and possessing property. he's not precisely the guy i might run to for a twenty first Century handbook on faith and civil liberty. attempt Thomas Paine and The Rights of guy or perhaps Benjamin Franklin.... I concern that united statesa. is so shackled to Christianity that it has substitute right into a sort of Tebow-land the place lobotomy-eyed beauties with college tiers wander dumbly approximately questioning Jesus and the 12 disciples dined on Southern Fried hen and held a sort of Alabama Nationalist view of the international...the place those with Ph.d's in united statesa. will nevertheless carry expensive the belief in Noah's Ark and spin CD's backwards to take heed to of demons and factor to Russia incredibly than their very own hearts of darkness whilst confronted through evil of their very own neighborhoods... Oh expensive, and btw Thanksgiving grew to become into easily made a countrywide holiday through Abraham Lincoln who grew to become into in many cases parodied as a godless guy... yet grew to become into extra non secular and christian than George Washington...

Answer 8

Good Job!!!!! It is sad tho that a lot of your answerers "missed" it, as one of them put it. Until He comes back for us there will always be opposition to Christianity. 2nd Timothy 3:12 says " Everyone who wants to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted". NIV. We are supposed to pray for those who don't believe, because arguing with them only makes them disbelieve that we care and want them to have the blessings and comfort that we have.

Answer 9

everyone knows George Washington was a deist. He did believe in god, but he also thought 'religion' was scary. And had doubts about the christian bible...read the Proclamation again..and try to point out anything about Jesus or religion...yea, thought so...pick up a book on Washington, Paine, Jefferson..and read their writings..then come back to me.

Answer 10

Ok now explain to me please the Treaty of Tripoli article 11 and the fact that the word God is found not one single time in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution?
I will never understand why you all just willfully ingore that.

Answer 11

I'm seeing a belief in "A" God but nothing that states "Christ" or "Jesus" in that proclamation. This could be referring to Taiowa, the Creator-God of the Hopi just as much as it coud be to the Christian one......