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You think that you have built your world on your own philosophies. You DO live in a grass hut.
If you will acknowledge that the founding fathers' founding principles include as its basis the philosophy of the Judeo-Christian tradition, you will at least progress from your grass hut to the refinement of Monticello.
Do you plan on acknowledging that the version of Christianity the founding fathers practiced is not the type you find among the religious extremists today who constantly pull the America is a Christian nation card?
There was no such thing as Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christianity when America was founded, and that's the non-historical, corrupted form of Christianity you guys are preaching.
These United States are not Christian, and never have been, and never will be, as long as the constitution stands.
Many founding fathers feared organized religion, of any kind.
No, they feared State control over religion. The very thing that is happening today. The State is controlling religion, by trying like hell to silence it in public.
Everyone is a believer.
Some believe a god does exist, and some believe there is no god of any kind. Still, both have a belief.
It is freedom of religion, not freedom from religion, idiots!
It is freedom of religion, not freedom from religion, idiots!
Actually, it is both. You cannot have freedom of religion without freedom from religion. If people are not free to reject religion, then there can never be freedom of religion.
A Deistic god most likely, seeing as the majority of the founders would not by considered Christian by any right wingers today. They rejected important things like the trinity, virgin birth, Jesus' divinity. Belonging to a denomination doesn't make their beliefs Christian. Jefferson went to Church regularly, and yet rejected almost every tenant of Christianity.
"They rejected important things like the trinity, virgin birth, Jesus' divinity. Belonging to a denomination doesn't make their beliefs Christian".
If they weren't Christian, why did they build so many Christian churches?
I don't any other buildings as a place or worship other then a Christian church.
Notice that none of them say which God? George Washington consistently referenced a Deistic type of god, not the Christian God.
Go back to the link and read Virginia's.
For the record, I would rather believe in the one true God, his son the Christ who was crucified and rose again, and be wrong, than to believe that there is no God and be wrong.
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