Posted on 04/27/2010 5:39:49 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Probably just what it sounds like
“But were they Christians, and did they found a Christian nation?”
Yes.
The founders were self professed believers in NATURE’s God. They added the separation of church and state, to prevent the state from establishing a state sponsored religion, like the church of England.
They then used the teachings of Judeo-Christian faiths as their main legal foundation.
IMHO — The book the 5000 Year Leap is a very good read for understanding all about this subject.
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Founders were Deists.
I want to know what her path to citizenship is.
“They added the separation of church and state, to prevent the state from establishing a state sponsored religion, like the church of England”
What part is the “separation” ?
Congress shall make no law...
I don’t see that separating anything
LLS
Neutral government structure, based on Judeo-Christian principles, formed and reformed via election by mostly Judeo-Christian citizens = Christian nation. We the People used to be the Government; we are still the Nation.
There is nothing in the Constitution that says anything about “separation of state and religion”. That phrase was manufactured by the left as a way to marginalize religion in America’s life.
All the Founding Father’s wanted to preclude was the establishment of a “state religion”. Many of them had first and second hand experience with The Church of England, for example. This so-called religion was created by Henry VIII, I think, because the Catholic Church refused to grant him a third or fourth divorce. The reason for the divorce: His queen could not conceive.
Tarpon, “separation of state” is a leftist demrat lie. Are you sure you’re not trolling?
“We look at their church membership primarily, and also at their correspondence. Back then church membership was a big deal. In other words, to be a member of a church back then, it wasn’t just a matter of sitting in the pew or attending once in a while. This was a time when church membership entailed a sworn public confession of biblical faith, adherence, and acknowledgment of the doctrines of that particular church.
Of those 55 Founding Fathers, we know what their sworn public confessions were. Twenty-eight were Episcopalians, eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutheran, two were Dutch Reformed, two were Methodist, two were Roman Catholic, one is unknown, and only three were deists—Williamson, Wilson, and Franklin.
To heap more fuel on the fire of my point, of the 55, the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, and the Dutch Reformed (which make up 45 of the 55) were Calvinists, for goodness sake! In other words, these weren’t just Christians, these were among the most extreme and doctrinally strict Christians around. Of the 55 delegates, virtually all of them were deeply committed Christians. “
“Founders were Deists.”
Wrong! Only a handful were.
“I want to know what her path to citizenship is.”
I want to know where that spray bottle of Troll-B-Gon went to...
- JP
The Supreme Court has also made a pronouncement (after examining over 15,000 Founding Documents, etc. pertaining to the founding of our Country,) they declared that The United States of America is a Christian Nation. If you copy and paste the link below into your browser it should take you to the document published by SCOTUS February 29, 1892.
http://candst.tripod.com/holytrin.htm
And tell me pray tell, where was that added?
Didn’t Jefferson give this phrase when he was preaching about the government staying out of churches?
NO.
The founders wanted to keep government out of religion.
They had no problem with religion’s influence on government, and in fact among the first official acts of both houses of Congress was to provide for a chaplin for each house. Since day 1, sessions of congress have been opened with prayer.
Try again.
- JP
Jefferson used the phrase in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists of Connecticut, IIRC. They had written him in 1801 to express their fears that a state religion would be adopted, and they would be persecuted as a consequence. Jefferson’s letter and the use of the phrase “a wall of separation” was intended solely to reassure the Baptists that they had nothing to fear, because no official state religion would ever be declared.
- JP
Thank God, the U.S. has until now been a Christian nation. As such it de facto embodies the noble ideals of Judaism and its daughter religion, Christianity. No other nation in the histor of the world has made so many people so free and given them a chance to get ahead and have freedom of religion and freedom from the tyranny of government. I am thankful to live in this very special Christian country.
Thank God, the U.S. has until now been a Christian nation. As such it de facto embodies the noble ideals of Judaism and its daughter religion, Christianity. No other nation in the histor of the world has made so many people so free and given them a chance to get ahead and have freedom of religion and freedom from the tyranny of government. I am thankful to live in this very special Christian country.
Thank God, the U.S. has until now been a Christian nation. As such it de facto embodies the noble ideals of Judaism and its daughter religion, Christianity. No other nation in the histor of the world has made so many people so free and given them a chance to get ahead and have freedom of religion and freedom from the tyranny of government. I am thankful to live in this very special Christian country.
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