A majority of our founding fathers were bible thumping fundamentalist Christians, but the main influential ones were sons of the Enlightenment, which took a more Unitarian look at the world. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist and Benjamin Franklin was an Agnostic.
The beginning of the end?jeff_matzkeApril 3 2006, 21:17:28 UTC
The wonderfulness of America is its diversity. The improvements that have come about in American society have been a result of an acceptance of differences as a GOOD thing. The second a country is run by people who think their religion has a monopoly on the truth, that society is doomed. Look at all those Moslem countries. Is that how you see America? The Founding Fathers never intended for the US to be a Christian country. If anything, their morals were Judeo-Christian based (yes, Judeo-Christian - we invented it. And Jesus, Paul, etc. were members of our tribe who were killed by the same Italians oops, Romans, who now claim to be so pious). But they were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of their countries of origin, which had state religions, and religious persecution. Anyway, when the US becomes an officially Christian country, my friend, that will be the beginning of the end of America.
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The improvements that have come about in American society have been a result of an acceptance of differences as a GOOD thing.
The second a country is run by people who think their religion has a monopoly on the truth, that society is doomed. Look at all those Moslem countries.
Is that how you see America?
The Founding Fathers never intended for the US to be a Christian country.
If anything, their morals were Judeo-Christian based (yes, Judeo-Christian - we invented it. And Jesus, Paul, etc. were members of our tribe who were killed by the same Italians oops, Romans, who now claim to be so pious).
But they were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of their countries of origin, which had state religions, and religious persecution.
Anyway, when the US becomes an officially Christian country, my friend, that will be the beginning of the end of America.
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