It is based on the core laws in the U. S. at the founding of the nation, which are based on the 10 Commandments. The U. S. is a nation of free choice. The Bible does tell us which behaviors are acceptable to God and which are not, but God does give us free will to choose. EVERY law outside the original 10 amendments of the Constitution (the Bill of Rights) was made AFTER the founding of the U. S. The Bill of Rights are what compose the original Constitution. The Founding Fathers credited God and the Bible when deciding how to create the Bill of Rights, hence us originally being a Christian nation. We have strayed from that and it is hurting our nation, but upon founding we were a Christian nation.
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Well, to come to the defense of religion for the first time in my life. Christianity is a very VERY vague category. If you have 3 Christians in a room the only thing you can get two of them to agree upon is that the third is wrong. Christianity has VERY few guidelines that is not under question by itself and since it was founded so long ago there are few things that still apply to us.
For example, you claim that Christianity dont believe in polytheism. That should be super simple right? Wrong. First of all you have the whole stupid holy trinity going on but more importantly there are literally other gods described in the bible.
The things you are attributing to Christianity is only true for your personal version of it and is not necessarily shared by others. While USA is not a Christian nation (it was specifically meant to NOT be one), there is nothing fundamentally unChristian about it since that is basically impossible.
I don't know who specifically. But I'm pretty sure that this idea has its origins in the Cold War. I think a lot of things that we think of as traditionally American started in that way - as a way to establish an American identity in opposition to the way we viewed the Soviet Union. In religious matters specifically, we tried to define ourselves as a religious nation against atheistic communism.
It's a bummer to me, because America really does have a deep religious tradition and heritage, and it's been weakened by the cheap version of Christianity that you see tossed around today.
I've always wondered that myself. Our founding fathers were Deists, not Christians
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The so-called Founding Fathers were either Deists or atheists, and nowhere within your constitution does it establish Christianity as a state religion. The US isn't more Christian than any other state where Christianity is the majority religion, like Germany or Bulgaria.
I'm thinking such claims (although I'm hardly an expert) have more to do with the Enlightenment ideas and values that shaped the founding of the nation and the thinking of the framers. It seems difficult to divorce that entirely from Christianity as an influential source.
Started with the cold war. Communists USSR was an atheist state and America doubled down by adding more religious imagine. This is also when "in god we trust" is put on the money. Capitalism is holy and Communists evil.
Way back in ancient history, 1500's, Englanders who came here were very Christian. They taught Christian values in school (shock), they taught them at home. Many first learned to read from the Bible. But in the late 1900's America began to lose our way. We started to listen to anti Christians and compromised our values so as not to offend them. 9/11, the American Terrorist Attack, brought Christian faith even lower. And today we have the shit storm you talk about.
It's founding principles have been corrupted.
Now it was never designed to be a specifically "Christian' nation. It was however founded on Judeo-Christian ideas. The nation was not there to enforce biblical laws because it was not founded as a Theocracy, bur rather a nation to practice any peaceful religion freely. Examples of religious practices that were prohibited would be religions that practiced human sacrifice and cannibalism.
So it is neither a Theocracy or a atheistic nation. It is a free nation to provide religious freedom to peaceful religions to practice their faiths without fear of the government telling people how to practice those faiths.
And because they knew that there would be people who would ignore the rights of the people to practice their faiths, they recognized that self defense was a human and biblical right too.Perhaps because they never formalised the separation of state and religion.
Also the pledge of allegiance specifies "one nation under god".
There is nothing stopping churches using zealots to run for government as the only thing about religion specified in the constitution is freedom to practise and create religion.
Any attempt to enshrine separation in law is always blocked by religious groups (who are probably afraid that they would lose power over the masses)If anyone believes that one whole country is all the same religion, sorry to break it to you but it isn't. A majority of the population may claim to be of a certain faith like Christianity, but it's citizens may not practice true Christianity. When we claim Jesus as our savior and yet turn around and ignore his commands or go beyond what the Bible says, we aren't imitating Jesus, we are creating our own religion. You either belong to Christ or you don't,. no matter where you live.
The USA was originally mostly based on Christian rules. The majority of our original constitution was based on rules from the Bible, but over time society changed and became more and more immoral.
That was a product of the early 1900s and WW2 era fight against Communism. The idea was that Americans shouldn't want to be Communist because (in part) Communists are atheistic, which goes against America's religious roots.
It is not, nor has it ever been a Christian nation. The founding fathers knew exactly what basing your country on a religion would do. England lost us, primarily due to the fact that the church was buried deeply into the running of the country.
It's only because it was founded by Christians and based the founding documents on their beliefs.
It doesn't mean that you must be a Christian or else you will be held legally responsible, they specifically made that clear in their documents.The United States was founded by Christians. Then they deliberately implemented "the separation of church and state". That's the simplest terms.
all your complaints are kinda new left wing things, or things that the christian parts of america don't engage in. but don't stop
just because we are a Christian nation, does not mean that we persecute people that are Not Christians... Lots of publicity about people that are Crazy... thats is NOT America
It’s in the Declaration of Independence, buddy.
Honestly America was more catholic base than anything else. Catholic religion was more of a power over the poor than anything else
its our heritage. has been since its founding. just like how most Latin countries are also Christian nations.
It is in the Constitution.
The founders were all Christians.
To this day the majority of people in this Country consider themselves Christian.You are very clever with baiting folks into these convoluted arguments.
I think it's a misconception. The Founders clearly believed in the separation of church and state.
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