Why do Christians believe that the founding fathers were Christian and that this is a Christian country?

Question

Various documents written by them prove otherwise. Also, if they were Christian, why bother leaving theocratic England in the first place, much less making clauses about freedom of and from religion and seperation of church and state? That goes against what a Christian would do if in charge.

Answer 1

They probably believe it because it is preached to them on Sundays. They think if they say it often enough it will become true.

Answer 2

The founding fathers were DEIST, and they had to leave England because at the time NOONE was allowed to be a non-believer. It was literally required that you attend the Anglican church, or catholic or methodist or some other non-conformist church.

Deists do not attend any church at all because they reject all revealed religion, and they reject the resurrection of Christ. So they had to go somewhere else. America was supposed to allw freedom of religion, but it didnt.

Everyone was expected to follow the same religious rules as back home. Especially the PURITANS (Anne Hutchinson was an example)

Read Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson even created his own Bible in wehich he removed all the miracles, some of the parables and "fairy takes" that jesus spoke of, but kept most of the words.

You can find them on the below link.

Answer 3

Try reading an American history book that hasn't been altered by Anti-Christian Revisionism.

You have literally no understanding of the phrase "separation of church and state" as stated by Jefferson in a personal letter to the governor of Massachusetts, which, contrary to your belief, is NOT in the Constitution, and today has a "twisted" meaning and application from its original Jeffersonian intent and context, being corrupted into “separation of Church FROM State”. Jefferson's statement was originally stated in the context of telling the governor that predominantly Roman Catholic Massachusetts should not establish Catholicism as their one and only “state religion” (particularly since the Colonist fled England from “State Religion”)… it was never intended to be used to support the notion of a separation of federal government and overall religious matters. We know this because as President of the U.S. Jefferson signed legislation approving taxpayer funding for the construction of churches across the frontier to bring civility to those areas.

The Colonists came to America to escape the Crown’s repression of their Christian beliefs that were not in agreement with the official state recognized Anglican Church of England.

Answer 4

Just look at the original documents.
Neither The Declaration of Independence nor The Constitution bear any signatures with the names...Abdullah or Muhammed.
What more is there?

Answer 5

all you have to do is read the documents of our founding fathers.it's clear they were believers in GOD.

Answer 6

Just about everyone thinks the Founding Fathers were members of their own religious tradition. As a Unitarian Universalist, I always hear about how the founding fathers were Unitarian. Fundamentalists are convinced that the Founding Fathers were Fundamentalists.

I assume Jews and Mormons know better, but it's possible they fall for it, too!

Answer 7

Haven't read history have you? England was religiously oppressive--either you were a member of the protestant Anglican church or you were killed, jailed, etc. In America many came here to be free to worship as they wanted. What documents prove otherwise? The ones made up in your mind most probably. Here in America the majority rules. Sorry to tell you this but Christians are the majority here in this country. If you would like to live in an Atheist country try Communist China or North Korea.

Answer 8

Because they were and are nation was. The Founding Fathers,like us, thought differently on various things- that doesn't make them less a Christian. If you study the documents that you list, you will know your answers to 'why' they put in separation of church and state, and the government not allowed (like England) to set up a state religion. It's not difficult to understand at all. Hopefully, America will return to God before it's too late.

Answer 9

The country is Christian becuase most of the population is Christian. The foudnign fathers founded a government based on Chrisitan principles, but asked that the Church be separated from it. This means that the morals of a Church are still present, but religion shouldn't be a primary principle in decison making.
All goverments need some sort of relgion to be based off of. Marx (An atheist) tried to completely separate Church and State, and it's results in the Soviet Union were terrible, and the regime failed. But again, having a government based entirely on relgion isn't so good either, which is why the Middle Eats is in such turmoil.

Answer 10

It's in the history books.

Do you know how to research?

Do you know what hymns are?

Who wrote most of the hymns we sing in our churches?

Answer 11

First, the large majority of the founding fathers were Christian. There are plenty of books that explore the myth that they were all somehow deists, and I invite you to look it up. In fact, there were only 5 that were deists -- Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin among them, but their impact on the Constitution was pretty limited.

They left theocratic England because they didn't like the Church telling them how they had to worship God. They did want freedom of religion, and they didn't want an established church of the United States (although several states still had established churches and that was not considered wrong). The idea that they created a "wall of separation" as that term has been interpreted since 1947 is a myth.