You may have been taught in school that USA was founded above Christianity, merely testimony of such is not reflected in the books of our founding fathers. In fact, the first six American presidents were really disapproved to the tenet and dogma of Christianity.
Would you refer to prejudice and premeditated assassinate as Christian features? One of our forefathers was so partial against the American Natives that he once described them as 'having nought human besides the shape' and as 'a animal of pillage.' Known as the 'Father of our Country', President George Washington was known as 'The Town Destroyer,' and 'The Killer of Women and Children' in the Onadaga Indian People whom he and his army killed in chilly blood. Did good ol' George (who couldn't tell a prevaricate) believe this country was founded upon Christian fundamentals? Washington is quoted as saying, 'The United States is in no sense founded upon Christian Doctrine.'
John Adams, the second President of the United States, had little use for religion when he said,
Manolo Blahnik Rhinestone Buckle d'Orsay Blue Sandals, 'The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for applesauce. Nowhere in the Gospels do we detect a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we ascertain in Christianity.'
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence 'found not one redeeming function in traditional Christianity' and added:
Christianity------the most perverted system that ever shone above man. ------Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the educations of Christ by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the educating of Christ. The daytime ambition come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classified with the myth of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and the freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this synthetic scaffolding,
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Jefferson likewise phoned for limitation on the power of the Government, and was an advocate for the disconnection of Church and State.
James Madison, fourth president of the United States, thought no better of religion when he said: During about fifteen centuries the legal establishment known as Christianity has been on trial, and what have been the fruits, know next to nothing of, in all locations? These are the fruits: pride, indolence, stupidity, and airs in the clergy. Ignorance, airs, and servility in the laity, and in either clergy and laity, superstition, bigotry, and harassment.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was no mistrust a religious man who namely remembered for a Christian President; whatsoever, some say Lincoln was a skeptic of Christianity. He namely quoted as saying, 'The Bible namely no my Book and Christianity is no my religion. I could never give assent to the long perplexing expressions of Christian dogma.' His views did no change during his political vocation. He was later noted to mention, 'My earlier outlooks of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the person origin of the scriptures, have convert clearer and stronger with advancing annuals and I watch no cause because musing I shall ever change them.'
After Lincoln's assassination an American author and the redactor of Scribner's Monthly labeled Dr. Josiah G. Holland wrote about Lincoln's religious views:
'------He believed in God, and ------believed himself to be below his ascendancy and guidance. ------This unwavering belief in a Divine Providence began at his mother's knee, and ran like a thread of gold through always the experiences of his life. His connected sense of human duty was 1 of the fashions by which his faith manifested itself. ------He acknowledged one instant narration between God and himself, in all the movements and passions of his life. He was not professedly a Christianthat is, he subscribed to no creedjoined no organization of Christian disciples. He spoke little------of his religious belief and experiences; but that he had a deep religious life, occasionally imbued with superstition------.'
Perhaps Lincoln recognized the distinction in spirituality which is our articulation and relationship to our Creator, and religion which is the very thing that attempts to separate us from one another and our Creator.
Aside from chancellors, additional founding fathers of notoriety coincide namely Christianity has tiny value when it comes to governing a country of human. When Benjamin Franklin was inquired almost his religion, he said:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is promising to see; but I apprehend it has received manifold corrupting Changes, and I have, with the most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts to his divinity. ------ I do not penetrate that the Supreme takes it awry, by differentiating the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his disappointment.
Deism is a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious philosophy and campaign emphatic in England and the United States. Deists normally reject supernatural events and heavenly revelation common to systematized religion. Disregarding divine books and religions that assert the existence of such things, deists support religious beliefs have to be founded on human reason observation of the natural world which reveal the subsistence of a supreme being. Deist Thomas Paine had a mighty attitude about religion:
I do not believe in the creed alleged by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by anyone Church that I know of. My own idea is my own Church. ------Of all the tyrannies that influence mankind, cruelty in religion is the worst.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is portion of the Bill of Rights which prevents authority that establishes a citizen religion by Congress or that prefers or assists one religion over another. The First Amendment reads, 'Congress shall make no law esteeming an establishment of religion, or disallowing the free exercise thereof.' This part of the First Amendment is sometimes referred to as 'the separation of church and state' which manner that the state or citizen administration ought be kept separate from religious institutions.
I doubt the Ten Commandments were posted in courthouses during the early days of U.S. history. Our founding fathers proposed the First Amendment and rejected Christianity as a ruling ingredient in government and political issues. After being ruled by a government which tried to synchronize the beliefs of the whole population, they were fed up with being told what to do and what to believe. They wanted religious freedom. Today, we as citizens still ambition religious freedom, but there tin be no religious freedom when one religion controls the masses through government. Yet, this is exactly what has occurred in our nation. Religious teams offer to control the government by imposing laws that decide what a marriage is, what tin be grown in our backyard and what therapeutic research can be federally funded.
Every time a statute is passed that gives jurisdiction over what happens in a person's home, wedding, healthcare or religion, we lose dissimilar private right that was guaranteed in the laws secondhand to base our country. It's time to stand up and poll opposition bills and corrections that take away the one thing our founding fathers did have in commonfreedom from religion.
Works Cited:
The Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1968, p. 420
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