American christians , if the US was founded as a christian nation?
Why isn't God(yahweh) mentioned in the Constitution?
Also almost all of your founding fathers were deist.
Do you believe america was founded a christian nation?
Why isn't God(yahweh) mentioned in the Constitution?
Also almost all of your founding fathers were deist.
Do you believe america was founded a christian nation?
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Warren D
The Constitution was not a founding document. The United States existed as an independent nation for several years under the Articles of Confederation prior to the ratification of the Constitution. Each state was free--and continues to be free--to define itself as a religious or non-religious entity, and some do profess to be Christian.
The Constitution reflected the views of its framers that the United States should not have a state religion. The United States was formed of entities and individuals who were Christian. Many of the founders were deeply intellectual people who may have defined themselves as deists rather than Christians, yet many of them were also churchgoers. Our laws are based on Judeo-Christian principles.
While I believe the Constitution is a unique and wise document it is not fundamentally a founding document. The Declaration of Independence, which does mention God, is the closest thing to a founding document we have. These two documents should be considered together in defining our Republic.
Anonymous
"He is mentioned in [...] the Constitution (referred to as divine providence)"
Of what country? Neither of those two words is in the Constitution of the United States of America.
You forget Thomas Paine, for one.
I suggest you take a history class and learn to read.
Ted Bundy
"Have you ever actually read the Declaration of Independence?"
Yes, I have. Unfortunately, the passage you cite has nothing to do with the separation of Church and State. It has to do with the separation of the colonies from Britain.
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Have you ever actually read the Declaration of Independence?
" When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
It was our forefather's desire to separate "Church" and "State" to keep religion from influencing governmental law.