How was the USA Founded on Christianity?

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In 1954, after a campaign by the Catholic Knights of Columbus, Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan sponsored a bill to amend the Pledge of Allegiance to include the words "under God". On June 8, 1954, Congress adopted this change. 

A law was passed by the 84th United States Congress and approved by the President on July 30, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a joint resolution declaring In God We Trust the national motto of the United States. The same Congress had required, in the previous year, that the words appear on all currency, as a Cold War measure: "In these days when imperialistic and materialistic Communism seeks to attack and destroy freedom, it is proper" to "remind all of us of this self-evident truth" that "as long as this country trusts in God, it will prevail."
 
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, -Treaty between USA and Libya, signed at Tripoli, November 4, 1796
 
"Gentlemen, we are not, nor have we ever been a Christian Nation ...
 The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan nation."-
 John Adams 

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."-
 Thomas Jefferson; letter to Dr Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
 
"It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible."-
 Thomas Paine
 
The omission of God in the Constitution did not come out of forgetfulness, but rather out of the Founding Fathers purposeful intentions to keep government separate from religion.
 
"Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
 
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
 
Does the CREATOR in the only pertain to Christianity? Or to any GOD?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Creator means Creator.  If they wanted the US to be a Christian nation they would have specified Jesus Christ somewhere in the constitution.    The word "Jesus" appears nowhere in the constitution, therefore the US is not a Christian nation.   What does appear in the constitution is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".  That doesn't sound like a mandate for "christian nation".   Only in a Slick Perry Texan's sick mind would it.   The founders didn't imagine a rebellious backwards theocratic place like Texas being a part of the union either.

Riley · Answer

The USA is not, or ever was founded on christianity. US only based religion was founded by heretic Puritans and Calvinists who were banished and sent to the American colony's as convicts to escape the noose. For there heresy and blasphemy, of the true Christian religion.

The God, that US Americans created and follow isn't the same christian god, as all true christians who all remain meek follow, that is loving, forgiving, and non judgemental.

US Americans, even have rewrote the christian bible five times. Adding Freudian words, Americanised euthanisms, US American only used discrimination, verses and texts which too never existed, to suit there US only based religion. (you can google it)

? · Answer

Well this is an easy one the answer is that it wasn't that's trash that is pushed by bible thumping conservatives who see it only as a way to lead everyone down a road less intelligent. Our forefathers by and large were theist and many saw Christianity as a problem rather than a solution.

frank G · Answer

Good question.

You will hear a great deal of this talk over the next year and a half.  
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-4-2011/exclusive---david-barton-extended-interview-pt--1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-18-2011/richard-beeman

This country was founded by atheist scientists and philosophers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQn3vBSxdZE

You should fear dogmatic government control.

App · Answer

It wasn't, otherwise they wouldn't have specifically included the fact that the state couldn't associate itself with any one religion.

Anonymous · Answer

Real world practice rises above any written dictate. Looking at modern practices provides a window to past practices...

Nearly all US Christian “cliques” grandstand their faith in fraudulent mission -- openly and professedly, in fact.

Notably, Christianity prescribes forgiveness. US Christians, on the other hand, always (that is, always) dance and frolic in lockstep with US richclass legal industrial complex injunction -- which exclusively comprises judgment, condemnation, and everlasting public and societal punishment (the most fundamental tools of slavery).

So don't let US Christians tell you that their god is Christ -- because their god is the US State.

Anonymous · Answer

The Vatican owns more real estate in the USA than China or Japan.

Anonymous · Answer

At the time the treaty of Tripoli was signed the Muslims were still upset about the crusades and fact they still are today we were telling them that our government was not ran by our religion as the the euros and brits Mr Bush was asked not to use the word crusades and he complied but does not mean he was not a religious person?
Do the words ''God given rights'' ring a bell?

CommonSense Christian · Answer

It wasn't

Anonymous · Answer

wasn't it's a fallacy

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