What do YOU think the Founding Fathers of our nation (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Hancock, Franklin, Adams, etc etc) would have to say about The United States if they were alive today? Do you think that the same men who wrote the Declaration of Independence, The Bill Of rights, and the US Constitution would appove of what our country has evolved into? Or would they shake their heads in disgust and ask to be sealed back up in their monuments?
2007-12-12 11:47:03 · 22 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'd bet most would be shocked. They may even be frightened. I get frightened sometimes when I think what could happen if the extreme left or right got their hands fully on our country.
2007-12-12 11:50:50 · answer #1 · answered by apple juice 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some were. Many weren't. Yes some were Deist. John Adams was Unitarian. Others said they were Christian because that's just how it was back then, you had to say you were a Christian or people would question your sanity and morals. More important than the founding fathers' religion was whether the founding fathers wanted the country to be a Christian country. Overwhelmingly, they didn't want that. I saw a recent documentary about it where they quoted guy after guy saying that they didn't want America's laws to be religious in nature, that that was the very thing they were escaping from in Britain!
2016-05-23 07:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our founding fathers are no different than the fathers of illegitimate children. They have spawned an illegitimate government that the stewards of todays government have no trouble operating it for their profit and pleasure just as the founders did themselves.
At the time of the revolution there were only 250,000 people in the colonies. I doubt they created the government for the 350 million we now have. They didn't even believe it would last 50 years.
It was written for them, not for us.
They were no different from any thing going on today. They were corrupt, they murdered, they stole. Why do you think they didn't?
The founding fathers were not worth a continental.
2007-12-13 09:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
obviously, the founding fathers wouldn't understand all the changes that has gone on. I do believe they would be disgusted with the majority of new laws and the values of our society. Examples would be gay rights, no pledge of allegiance in schools, gay marriages, government spending, etc... I believe our morals and values have really gotten pretty bad. Our kids see too much garbage at an early age.
2007-12-12 11:56:15 · answer #4 · answered by scooter 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love the "Chargers Bolt"! I think they would ask for the seal, just based on the things you listed. Can you imagine if the first people they encountered were Paris or Brittany? Their heads would probably explode! Interesting question.
2007-12-12 12:19:10 · answer #5 · answered by rosi l 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they would have been amazed at what we have accomplished in terms of technology, but horrified at the size of the Federal Government.
2007-12-12 11:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by Pythagoras 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They rebelled over taxes. Somehow I don't see how they would approve of things as they are. I wonder what percent those tariffs were - how much they amounted to vs. today's income tax.
2007-12-12 11:51:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's well known that most of the founding fathers were deists, not Christians. Some of the early Presidents had contrary views of Christianity, that are not well known to many:
"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 Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
- President George Washington
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”
“Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies”
- Thomas Jefferson
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing age and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
- President Abraham Lincoln
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758.
"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." — Abraham Lincoln.
"What have been the fruits of Christianity ? Superstition, bigotry and persecution." — James Madison, 4th president of the U.S.
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." — John Adams, 2nd president of the U.S.
2007-12-12 11:51:01 · answer #8 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
I believe they would be disgusted with traitor-bush and those that support him as he attempts to flush The Constitution and The Bill of Righst down the crapper by torturing terrorists, thus dragging our once great nation down to their level.
2007-12-12 11:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
shake their heads in disgust and say here let me show you Again!
Your all acting like a bunch of 3rd graders.
2007-12-12 11:50:42 · answer #10 · answered by LandOfMisty 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋