America's government has always been correlated with its religion, and our governments religion has been that of a Bible-based Judeo-Christian mindset.
The liberals, Bible-haters, including the evolutionists, move to wipe out such a record as they dislike such a precedence
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The Founding Fathers were the less religious people I´ve ever seen, in the sense of the word you´re giving. And by the way, what about those Protestant, Catholic and muslim thugs of the Middle Ages?, be consequent with "correlations"
The philosophy that guided Washington was Freemasonry. His peers found no fault with that; indeed, it enhanced their trust in him.
Do you think they would have been able to build a Great Society with biblical demagoguery and superstition as a guide?
Not only No, but Fuck No!
Get real.
The US government doesn't have a religion. It even says so right in the Constitution (and the Treaty of Tripoli, bitch!).
In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Supreme Court noted the three main evils (the Supreme Court's word) against which the Establishment Clause was intended to afford protection: "sponsorship, financial support, and active involvement of the sovereign (i.e., the state or federal government) in religious activity."
That's the precedent. I don't see anything about special privileges for Jews or Christians. The government doesn't hate the Bible. It just ignores it for the purpose of establishing US law.
On the other hand, he has a point. The first colonists? Puritans. The first governments? Also Puritan. The first constitutions? Puritan. Our bizarre uptightness? Puritan. All our presidents? White Protestant males. Except Kennedy. He was a white Catholic male. And there was a lot of muttering about that. Like it or not, whether it was intended or not, American politics is hugely tied into religion. Religion colours every debate we have, abortion and gay marriage being only the most visible and recent merging of church and state. We have a born-again president, for crying out loud!
All of which sucks. Royally. So he has got a point. And it's a good thing if people ARE trying to wipe out such a record. It's a horrible precedence! The country was not supposed to be so mixed up with religion in politics.
Basically, he does have a grasp of history, beyond the basics that they feed you in school about purity and the wonderful intents of the Founders. Of course, it's probably by accident.
"The United States in is no sense founded upon the Christian religion." George Washington
"Revealed religion has no weight with me." Benjamin Franklin
"I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." Thomas Jefferson
"This could be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." John Adams
"I disbelieve all holy men and holy books." Thomas Paine
"Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and myths." Thomas Jefferson
"In no instance have churches been the guardians of the liberties of the people." James Madison
"The Christian god is cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust." Thomas Jefferson
"What has been Christianity's fruits? Superstition, bigotry, and persecution." James Madison
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." Thomas Paine
"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."
Abraham Lincoln
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." Susan B. Anthony
We've got the US Constitution, the Treaty of Tripoli, and the individual writings of many of the founding fathers to refute your point.
You've got hucksters like David Barton.
I think I know which side is altering the records, mickey.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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