Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: thomaswest

"It is not based on any religion or divine commandments, but upon "we the people"."

I guess you have never read any of the writings of the people who actually drafted the Constitution, or voted on it. Those writings are chock full of invocations of the Almighty, etc. Almost all were Christians. None were atheists; a tiny minority were deists. The only times atheists have been left alone to come up with a government system (as in the French and Russian Revolutions), they came up with dictatorship and mass murder. Why? Probably because they think most ordinary human beings are so so inferior to them that they couldn't be allowed to have choice, or even to live.


142 posted on 08/01/2006 5:37:30 PM PDT by hellbender
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies ]


To: hellbender
Re 142: I guess you have never read any of the writings of the people who actually drafted the Constitution, or voted on it. Those writings are chock full of invocations of the Almighty OK, but so what. Personal motivations and beliefs do not make law. The USA is a republic based on law.

The Founders certainly had personal beliefs, but they were thoughtful about not imposing them on others.

Go, thou, and do likewise.

There is not a single mention in the Constitution about any god or about Christ. Art VI says atheists, pagans, etc. are equal because there "shall be no religious test."

158 posted on 08/01/2006 6:06:46 PM PDT by thomaswest (I just believe in one fewer god than you do.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 142 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson