Has America become the country it fled???

Question

Has America become exactly like the England it was fleeing???

I say this because looking at America...religion is everywhere...on our televisions, on our currency, in our national pledge, on our doorsteps....wasn't this what we were fleeing when we left England????

It's my understanding that we left England because (and this is just one reason of many) they had a singular religious belief system which was adopted on the government level, endorsed by the government and announced as the national religion.

Aren't we close enough to doing all that here in the US already???

Kinda ironic, eh???

Answer 1

Yes it is.

Cultures always go through shifts and are never static, so I have a sense we're leaving irrationalism soon. It goes in cycles here in the states.

Answer 2

A very SAD irony, at that. I've held that same belief for many years. An odd - and hypocritical - juxtaposition has spread across the U.S. over the centuries since the first group of Quakers arrived on these shores. Christianity has slowly, subtly, but steadily, infused every aspect of our society - including our laws. (If you disagree, then give me some other explanation of just why homosexual couples in this country are FORBIDDEN to legally marry in most states. What "group" of people in this country have the BIGGEST problem with homosexuality in general? Yep - the Christian zealots.)

Hardly anyone notices, because it HAS been so subtle; almost like a brainwashing. But if you look at it from an entirely objective (i.e. neutral, non-Christian) standpoint, the Bible DOES control many - if not most - of this nation's laws (AND politicians), to a greater or lesser degree. (If it didn't, homosexuality, abortion, and alleged "anti-Christian" movies [just to name a few] wouldn't be the huge problems they've become.)

We've indeed become the very country our ancestors were fleeing (IMHO). Most were fleeing religious persecution. Yet, for example, isn't THAT what it is when Christian zealots of today picket military funerals, "Gay Pride" events, and LGBT community centers, yelling out and waving signs that say, "GOD HATES FAGS!!!", "God says DEATH TO ALL FAGS!!!", "Homosexuality is an ABOMINATION under God!!!", etc.??? Isn't THAT "religious persecution"???

The defense rests.

Answer 3

Hell yeah we can be. Our fool president and his commie coon comrades are already systematically destroying our united states of america the comparable way black-*** mandela did to South Africa. The coons and beans cant proceed to exist devoid of their handouts, so what is going to ensue while they are in can charge of each and every thing. There will never be something left. The whites will the two forcefully take yet back, or will make a mass exodus to a majority white united states of america like Australia or someplace and go away what's left of the U. S. to the minority grime. it would be so humorous to verify the reaction on all their faces if sometime they awoke to no longer a single white person interior the finished united states of america.

Answer 4

No, I don't think so.

There's enough diversity in the U.S. that such a thing would never be allowed.

Everyone in the U.S. still has freedom of religion, exactly as we're supposed to.

While I wouldn't say that the U.S. is a Christian nation, I WOULD say that a lot of our state Constitutions are based on Christianity, or at least a belief in God. And the majority of people in the U.S. at least claim to hold Christian beliefs, even if they're not actually Christians.

What you see (being inundated with religion) is only a result of the majority of the country holding a belief in God. Nothing more, nothing less.

There is no "Christian conspiracy" to take over the entire country, and convert everyone forcibly. Nor is there a plan to imprison all non-Christians and/or make it impossible to express their beliefs. Or if there is, I must have missed that memo.

Answer 5

What is more scary is the fact there is a movement going on now Christians are getting into, and they haven't checked the theology behind it...the emerging church.
Looks good sounds good on the outside but the ideas are not right.
I think it may be the great deception the Bible said would come on the world.

Answer 6

I think the difference is we (English) use to really persecute people who didn't belong to the religion in power at the time for example Morris martyrs of Lewes. I think America apart from the passing comment lets people from other faiths be.

Answer 7

Of course. Our founding father left due to religious persecution and some how religious people of today think and assume that this is a Christian nation.

Answer 8

We are getting there but not as of yet...