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I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
Yeah uh huh, our Founding Fathers weren't Christians. Yup, you just keep on believing in those fairy tales. Whatever floats yer boat i guess.
I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
Yeah uh huh, our Founding Fathers weren't Christians. Yup, you just keep on believing in those fairy tales. Whatever floats yer boat i guess.
They may not have all been Christians but they were religious it seems.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20religion%20of%20the%20founding%20fathers&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CHUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adherents.com%2Fgov%2FFounding_Fathers_Religion.html&ei=X0KwT-biDMWC2wWVkJHpCA&usg=AFQjCNF9mWqeHBelZiOsWHm6K5HCMl8pEA
I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
Yeah uh huh, our Founding Fathers weren't Christians. Yup, you just keep on believing in those fairy tales. Whatever floats yer boat i guess.
They may not have all been Christians but they were religious it seems.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20religion%20of%20the%20founding%20fathers&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CHUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adherents.com%2Fgov%2FFounding_Fathers_Religion.html&ei=X0KwT-biDMWC2wWVkJHpCA&usg=AFQjCNF9mWqeHBelZiOsWHm6K5HCMl8pEA
I'll spare you the entire argument. You do not know whereof you speak, and it's not up to me to educate you.
Yeah uh huh, our Founding Fathers weren't Christians. Yup, you just keep on believing in those fairy tales. Whatever floats yer boat i guess.
They may not have all been Christians but they were religious it seems.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20religion%20of%20the%20founding%20fathers&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CHUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adherents.com%2Fgov%2FFounding_Fathers_Religion.html&ei=X0KwT-biDMWC2wWVkJHpCA&usg=AFQjCNF9mWqeHBelZiOsWHm6K5HCMl8pEA
Yeah uh huh, our Founding Fathers weren't Christians. Yup, you just keep on believing in those fairy tales. Whatever floats yer boat i guess.
They may not have all been Christians but they were religious it seems.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=the%20religion%20of%20the%20founding%20fathers&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CHUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adherents.com%2Fgov%2FFounding_Fathers_Religion.html&ei=X0KwT-biDMWC2wWVkJHpCA&usg=AFQjCNF9mWqeHBelZiOsWHm6K5HCMl8pEA
All that means is that they were what you see in the list. Like I'd say I'm a Christian. I would say probably CMA (Christian-Missionary Alliance) only because I am being asked to name one. I was last in church Mother's Day, 2011, preceded by the same in 2010.
Affiliation doesn't mean much of anything if it doesn't govern your life. And as history has indicated, this country wasn't founded so we could use religion to beat people about their heads and shoulders til their noses bled.
I do not care if fundamentalist Christians are the majority *they aren't, but I'm making myself clear*. I do not want to see this country doing the Christian version of Sharia law.
'Founded upon' in context of the language at the time was a reference to the idea that the government ruled the people due to God having appointed the king and his rule was justified as 'Divine Right' of kings. The ranking Bishop placing the crown on the kings was symbolic of this annointing by God of the king to rule. The kings claim to rule was only as strong as the legitimacy of the religion of the bishop that crowned him king. So the religion in question was a state religion and to belong to any other was grounds for suspicion of treason and prevented one from serving in the government.
Our government was not founded on Divine right conveyed by a bishops hand. The right of our government to govern comes from the will of the people and their consent for that governance. Our government does not rule us, it SERVES us and the Voice of the People determines the breadth and scope of that governance.
But from the time of its inception til the middle 20th century, we have always acknowledged that God rules and we survive at His pleasure. The Christian philosophers Locke and Adam Smith had much grounding in the precepts and principle of Christian theology and they heavily influenced our Founding Fathers.
So our government was founded on Christian principle as they best understood it, though not formally on the word of a bishop.
But rather on the word of God himself.
Freewill each human born on this planet has.
Your question is poorly phrased but if it is read to understand whether the country was founded on a spiritual and moral foundation as guided by the predominant religious convictions of the colonists, then the answer is an unequivocal yes.
In addition to the other ambitions the settlers brought to the establishment of Colonial America, a melting pot of cults had to be created. The vast majority of the colonists were religious, and there is no credible research which suggests otherwise. The early dominance of the Puritans in New England was quickly challenged with new arrivals and as the colonies expanded. These other Christian denominations included Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans, Baptists, Quakers, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc.... many of whom had been in conflict at one time or another.
There were numerous examples of disagreement and mistrust between the faiths in the years leading up to the Constitution. For example; because of continuing problems between the faiths, Maryland passed an Act in the mid-1600s to try and prevent one denomination from bullying the others. It was called the Maryland Toleration Act. Although this didn't last long, this and other such efforts did set the stage for the First Amendment of the Constitution (the fact that religious tolerance was drafted as the first amendment underlines the importance it held for the Christian electorate).
The debate over whether the founders were Christian tends to gloss over the fact that most were Christian or spiritual, believing in one God. Deists like Jefferson didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus but wrote of the importance of the moral teachings represented by Jesus.
For whom was the Constitution written? The answer - the religious majority. Even the most cynical would have to agree, politicians need to play to their constituency. Christianity and morality were the coins of the realm.
It was not founded on the Christian religion, but that doesn't mean a default to no religion.
Why doesn't it? Should we go on which branch has the most people? Which religion? Catholics?
What is the majority?
The eleventh article of the Barlow translation has no equivalent whatever in the Arabic. The Arabic text opposite that article is a letter from Hassan Pasha of Algiers to Yussuf Pasha of Tripoli. The letter gives notice of the treaty of peace concluded with the Americans and recommends its observation. Three fourths of the letter consists of an introduction, drawn up by a stupid secretary who just knew a certain number of bombastic words and expressions occurring in solemn documents, but entirely failed to catch their real meaning. Here the only thing to be done by a translator is to try to give the reader an impression of the nonsensical original:
Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.