For real! I already told em to read the Federalist Papers. Honestly some are blinded by dogma
Our system of government was patterned after the Roman system of government that was developed when Rome was Pagan. And the Greeks contributed alot too with their notions of democracy that again were developed when the majority were Pagan in religion.
The USA was founded on the enlightenment beliefs of freedom and reason, neither being attributes of religion then or now.
I hear all the time that "this is a Christian Nation". Do you think this is so.
I am going to go ahead and say anyone who truly thinks this country was meant to be a Christian nation is a complete moron. The founding fathers were secularist, there is some evidence indicating Thomas Jefferson was at least agnostic.
" The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes; fools and hypocrites. To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." -Thomas Jefferson
The USA was founded on the enlightenment beliefs of freedom and reason, neither being attributes of religion then or now.
In fact, the country was founded on the idea of religious freedom, they came here specifically to get away from religious oppression. It isn't Christianity that we were founded upon, but freedom of religion, or to be free of religion.
I think the country was founded upon Christian morals and the rights we have are ours because the founders believed the Christian God gave them to us.
I honestly don't know the true answer to this, but I do believe that most of our founding fathers didn't want this to be a Christian nation. If they had wanted this, I don't see why they didn't put something to that affect in the Constitution.
Most of them who were religious were deists
the country isn't based on christian morals at all
Most of them who were religious were deists, and the country isn't based on christian morals at all. Most of the laws that coincide with the ten commandments are cultural universals and have been seen almost everywhere, but the first four would require a theocracy. You're wrong, organized has done more harm than good here and it doesn't appear that it will stop anytime soon.
Most of them were Christian. Our first president was very religious. Our rights come from God according to the founders. Our moral code is similar to Judeo-Christian ethics. You are wrong. You cannot deny that the founders and vast majority of the population was Christian, that our rights don't come from God according to the founders, and that Christian thinking and philosophy played a major role in our nation's creation. We are not a theocracy, I specifically said that we are not founded "upon" Christianity. However, Christians and Christian thinking heavily influenced our laws and creation of our nation.
they did at the State level. at the Federal level, however, there was need for an agreement that no one side would ever put the beliefs of their own State(s) into power over the others.
our rights did not come from god, depsite what our founders might have believed. if they did, then every person on earth has the same rights, and who are we to deny them those rights? our "rights" were constructed by US.
Our rights do come from God, they are enshrined in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence because the founders believed God created all men equally.
And, we have realized that we cannot operate well as a country with 50 separate nations inside it.
Which is why we now have a stronger federal government than state governments.
The founding fathers had very little way to predict that people would be able to move from one state to another in less than a day, nor could they have predicted that we might be able to conduct business effectively and quite often between states almost instantaneously. We are not living in the world of our founding fathers.
And I do believe that they meant for those individual freedoms that they put into the Bill of Rights to be more important than states' rights.
Nah.
US is a secular country, founded on a church and state separation.
No, they come from the beliefs of man that the founding fathers mistakenly accredited to God. None of the founding fathers claimed to have actually spoke to God, therefore, any ideas they had were either original ideas from them or they were ideas that other people wrote down or employed that our founding fathers found beneficial. It is possible that God inspired all these, but cannot be proven.
None of the founding fathers claimed to have actually spoke to God
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