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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? "The United States' history has been shaped and significantly im?

Do you agree or disagree with this statement? "The United States' history has been shaped and significantly impacted by religion."

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  • 1 decade ago
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    agree

    We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775] - John Adams and John Hancock

    "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 - John Hancock

    Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"? --1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts. - John Quincy Adams

    Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:

    (1) Christianity

    (2) a Constitution formed under Christianity.

    “The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.” - Alexander Hamilton

    “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, 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.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses] - Patrick Henry

    "To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them." - Jedediah Morse

  • 5 years ago

    Absolutely true, the east coast of america was settled by those seeking relgious freedom, the southwests original inhabitants were forcibly converted to christianity. I don't think you'll find too many atheists that argue that there were not religious concepts applied to the colonial america.

  • I think that would be true for almost any country, save for a few such as the Soviet Union or Maoist China where the state religion was Atheism.

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh I misread your question.

    yes but mainly by Christianity. Europeans first went to America so that could practice their religion without being persecuted and since it has been the constant of the land.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, yes. As well as guns, assembly, speech and all the other freedoms and rights we have

    guaranteed by the Bill of Rights because the last owner of the US didn't believe in those rights.

  • 1 decade ago

    Our laws used to be based on it, and our Constitution was influenced by it. Agree.

  • 1 decade ago

    As a British penal colony for Religious refugees, I'd have to say 'yes'.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes it is impossible to deny without being delusional.

  • 1 decade ago

    i agree with that

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no, it should say: "shaped and significantly impacted by Christianity"...unfortunately

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