Is America a Christian Nation?
Feb 14, 2012 Misc
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CrimsonLight
The message of God echoed through Glenn Beck’s tea party rally. Beck said America is turning back to God but which God should America turn to? For Beck and many of his followers that’s the Christian God. Does that make America a Christian nation? Dr. Jerry Newcombe Author of ‘The Book that Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation’ argues the Declaration on Independence says God is the source of our rights. Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, debates our country was founded on a godless foundation and that we’re a proud godless secular nation.
February 14th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
what about the? Native Americans? millions killed under christianity
February 14th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever;
–Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.
February 14th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe,? that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
–Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.
February 14th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Madison, said in an 1829 speech at Harvard: “There never has been a period of history, in which the? Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.”
February 14th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Our sixth President,? John Quincy Adams said “From the day of the Declaration…they [the American people] were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct”
February 14th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
In 1811 ( People v Ruggles), New York Chief Justice James Kent held: “‘…whatever strikes at? the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government… .’ We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity… . Christianity in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the Bible, is part and parcel of the law of the land… .”
February 14th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Judge Nathaniel Freeman in 1802 charged Massachusetts Grand Juries as follows: “The laws of the Christian system, as embraced by the Bible, must be respected as of high authority in all our courts… . [Our government] originating in the voluntary compact of a people who in that very instrument profess the Christian religion, it may be considered, not as republic? Rome was, a Pagan, but a Christian republic.”
February 14th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Samuel Chase was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Justice of the US Supreme Court, and, as Chief Justice of the State of Maryland, wrote in 1799 ( Runkel v Winemiller): “By our form of government,? the Christian religion is the established religion… .”
February 14th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Samuel Adams, who has been called ‘The Father of the American Revolution’ wrote The Rights of the Colonists in 1772, which stated: “The rights of the colonists as Christians…may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of the Great Law Giver and Head of the? Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
February 14th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Thomas Jefferson also Used the Bible and non-denominational
religious instruction in the public schools. He
was involved in three? different school districts
and the plan in each one of these required—
required—that the Bible be taught in our public
schools.
February 14th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Thomas Jefferson proposed a national seal that depicted Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea. Included the word God in our national motto, Granted land to Christian churches? to reach
the Indians, Allowed government property and facilities to
be used for worship,(The congressional hall) Funded religious books for public libraries Funded the construction of church buildings
for Indians,
February 14th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” – Patrick Henry
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February 15th, 2012 at 12:05 am
Jefferson wrote”I too have made a wee little book from the same materials, which, I call Philosophy of Jesus;it is a paradigma of his doctrines,made by cutting the texts out of the book, and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more? beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. “Real Christian” is underlined in Jefferson’s letter
February 15th, 2012 at 12:23 am
@jordyd19 you really? don’t have a leg to stand on when you have to rely on comments like this to voice your hatred.
February 15th, 2012 at 12:56 am
it was not used to encourage atheistic views or to censor people from religious expression in fact it is meant to ENCOURAGE religious? debate as it applies to law and public policy…in other words it was ASSUMED THAT GOD WAS ABOVE THE GOVERNMENT…put that in your pipe and smoke it or just accept that GOD IS REAL ….like most people believe
February 15th, 2012 at 12:57 am
every word of the declaration has been studied and about 75% are directly attributed from the bible and only 2%is attributed to the so called DIEST or NON DENOMINATIONAL authors or philosophers……this country is a judeo christian country by the majority being christians but we TOLERATE other religions the two sections of the first amendment have to do with the fed gov not being able to ESTABLISH a common or STATE MANDATED RELIGION such as catholic,? angelic, or Calvinistic or Puritan church
February 15th, 2012 at 1:28 am
@filoIII f-u? hope u get raped by bears then eaten by beetles
February 15th, 2012 at 2:15 am
@jordyd19 The mormons worshp Christ. Who you trying to fool, fool? 2Cor 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should? be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.-Christians say Jesus is God in the flesh. Mormons don’t.
February 15th, 2012 at 3:11 am
@filoIII? mormans worship christ so it’s easy to get it confused. It’s just the american jesus
February 15th, 2012 at 3:30 am
“There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the? other half hypocrites.”
–James Madison
Religions are all alike—founded upon fables and mythologies.
—Thomas Jefferson
Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
—Benjamin Franklin
“The United States in is no sense founded upon the Christian religion.”
–George Washington
February 15th, 2012 at 4:01 am
Another religious? fucktard
February 15th, 2012 at 5:00 am
Beck is a mormon, not? Christian. Get it straight.
February 15th, 2012 at 5:45 am
@batistaker123? Google can be your friend.
February 15th, 2012 at 6:35 am
@flameboy1236 Sources? please?