My coworker thinks the United States was founded On Christianity?

Question

what supports this claim?

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Answer 1

Nothing...

Your co-worker is ignorant of history...

Addition: For those using "In god we trust" as an argument it was added to currency in 1956..

Research history you will learn a lot...

Answer 2

While it's true that most northern early colonies, such as the Massachusetts Bay Colony, were founded by Protestants seeking religious freedom, most colonies founded south of Pennsylvania were actually created for profit. Jamestown anyone?
Now, Spanish colonies did come before British colonies, and most of those that made it up into areas like California and Texas were to spread Catholicism. However, these areas weren't part of the United States until much later, when the religious aspects of living were greatly diluted. So, to say the United States was founded on Christianity is partially correct, but most of the Christians involved just wanted money and adventure.

Answer 3

the Knights of Columbus did foist the In God We trust upon the dollar and into the pledge but it didn't begin this way .
Much like laws in tennessee that deny the right to run for office to Atheists it's really unconstitutional in the most basic and obvious way.But don't argue with facts to a stubborn break wall they have deaf ears.Better to have a powerful lobby paying under the table.... or mass consciousness to the facts. And another note is just because there were different faiths represented by our forefathers does not change the wise decision to seperate religion from state as to elude one of the vey reason for rebellion in the first place religious freedom for all not just one or two sects.

Answer 4

It's amazing how little people know their history. The pilgrims did not establish this country, they mere populated a colony. Puritanism died out very early on. The Salem witch hunts proved what good Christians they were. Allowing people to worship any way they choose does not make this country founded on Christianity. It is founded on religious freedom. Putting "In God We Trust" on our money doesn't mean a thing as far as separation of church and state. There are as many non-religious items on our money as there are religious ones.

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Answer 5

Ignorance only. The founding fathers wrote extensively on this subject. All of these writings can be accessed easily, and the founding fathers stated specifically that they were opposed to any individual religion gaining control or superiority in government. The founding fathers even stated what they meant by, "In God we trust." They described this as, "However any individual defines or identifies the source of the universe."

Answer 6

Originally, Puritans came here to escape (and enforce) different types of religious bigotry. The Anglican Church didn't like them because they were even more intolerant than they were... so they came here, established highly religious and conservative communities, and got straight on whipping Quakers. However the "they were there first" makes no sense, seeing as I could also quite easily claim that America was founded on tribal paganism because the Natives were here before anyone.

The country itself was founded more on freedom from being used by England for economic gain. Most of the founding fathers were deists to begin with.

lol people actually think that "in god we trust" proves anything... yeah, one reference to Christianity for every dozen references to Masonry on the dollar bill...

Answer 7

I think many of the founders were theists and most of the Christian faith, of one denomination or another, but they remembered why so many came here in the first place; religious persecution. And because of that they purposefully did not design a governmental instrument, the Constitution, that discriminated on the basis of religion. That came later.

Answer 8

Considering there is freedom of religion (I believe it is amendment #1 in the constitution), I would say that the United States was founded so that no religion would be sponsored by the government, and it was founded for religious freedom.

Answer 9

Understand that most Christians confuse the colonization of the Americas with the founding of the nation.

The original settlers were overwhelmingly Christian, and were moving specifically for that reason. In this sense, many of the colonies were founded as Christian colonies. This started to see a rapid downfall, however, after the Salem Witch Trials, when the governor of Massachusetts forbade spectral evidence when the girls pointed their murderous fingers at his wife.

When the founding fathers came together, most were Christian in one form or another, but many of the authors of the documents were in fact Deists. So why did the Christians sign off on Deistic texts?

Had any one of the Christian groups won, the other groups would have been slighted. The Deists really ultimately had no stake in that war, so were a logical neutral position, and one that ensured that no matter what faith was believed, it could be practiced in good faith so long as the civility of the society was maintained. Thus, the Christians among the founding fathers knowingly and intentionally signed off on Deistic documents, to ensure their own continued freedom to worship as they saw fit.

The physical colonization was Christian in origin, however, the legalistic founding of the USA (the Declaration of Indepedance and the Constitution of the USA) was Deistic in nature, and did not describe any one true correct religion. In fact, the Declaration references only once the Creator (a term Deists use since it's the only definition they ascribe to the divine), and the Constitution never mentions a creator at all.

Further, the Senate of the USA and President John Adams, unanimously, signed off on the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 which outright stated that the USA was in no way founded as a Christian nation -- which is true. The nation was founded on Deistic principles, even though the colonies were founded on christian principles.

Article 11 reads:

"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."

Once you separate the two types of involved 'foundings', the issue becomes very clear.

Answer 10

as you can see some of these Christians think that the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution came over on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution in England. they apparently believe that the American Revolution was a religious war instead of a war about the lack of legal representation in a monarchical government.

when you listen to the likes of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh it addles your head a bit.

Answer 11

Those who came here on the Mayflower (and other ships), were Puritans (and some pagans who hid their faith) looking for religious freedom. Christianity sprung from there.