Christianity is nowhere mentioned in our Constitution.
Let's leave religion to our Churches to promote.
"This nation is founded and based on a faith in God."
In God yes...not Jesus Christ.
The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible.
From Article VII
"Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven..."
Just which LORD do you think they were referring to when they unanimously placed those words into our founding document?
Here are a couple of quotes which, I am sure, have not made your list:
"I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man." Alexander Hamilton
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." Patrick Henry
"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry
I skimmed your idiotic reply and missed the above. How silly. Deists believe is ALL that except miracles which is silly since the DO believe in a Supreme Being. Maybe you should stop coping website, trying to steal credit for stupidity and start THINKING for a change.
I skimmed your idiotic reply and missed the above. How silly. Deists believe IN ALL that except miracles which is silly since the DO believe in a Supreme Being. Maybe you should stop coping website, trying to steal credit for stupidity and start THINKING for a change.
What unadulterated bull hockey! As I just posted in another thread, deism never really caught on in America. It was fleetingly embraced only by a handful of non-founders during a very brief period in the 19th century. Jefferson, when accused of being a deist, hotly and indignantly denied it. And although Franklin's youthful flirtation with deism is well-known, his later repudiation of it is also no secret. Deists, as you know, don't believe in providence (divine intervention) and therefore don't believe in the utility of prayer. They also do not appeal to scriptural authority. Note Ben Franklin's speech to the Constitutional Convention, which follows --
"In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings. In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of dangers, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that 'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.'
"I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed, in this political building, no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and by-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
"I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service."
Sound like a "deist" to you? In just this one citation, we see Franklin referring repeatedly to divine intervention, calling for prayer and citing scriptural authority. Of the 55 men at the Constitutional Convention, a typical account of their faiths will show 28 Episcopalian (Anglican), 8 Presbyterian, 7 Congregationalist, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Lutheran, 2 Roman Catholic, etc. There was hardly a "deist" to be found among them, so your argument that the "primary" founders were "deists" is absurd. Did you know that in some states in 1789, you couldn't even hold public office if you were a deist? As early as the Great Awakening of the 1740s, deism was a distrusted and discredited relic of the French enlightenment, and as late as 1828, Noah Webster's definition of "deism" left no doubt about this.