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andychee
I was taught that the guys who formed the constitution were christians, and that now people say they weren't because they want to write God out of our lives.
Maybe it's not right to say you have to be christain, but don't we say One Nation under God? What kind of a coun try would we be if there were athiests in charge of us?
How would you make any body obey the law if they don't believe in God.
I thought you lost all your rights, like the right to freedom and the right to vote when you are a felon.
I don't think I got a felony for my dui. I guess a lot of guys are in jail for dui, so I don't know if there felons or not.
The founding fathers were not christians. [
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George Wasington wrote:
1st President (1789-1797)
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [not our?] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.” (Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792)
John Adams wrote:
2nd President (1797-1801)
“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.”
“Thirteen governments [states & former colonies] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretense of miracle or mystery...are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”
“It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [formation of the American governments] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven...”
Treaty of Tripoli ― Ratified by the Senate and signed into law by John Adams on 10 June, 1797.
“[T]he Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...”
“How has it happened that millions of myths, fables, legends and tales have been blended with Jewish and Christian fables and myths and have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed? Filled with the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?” (Letters to F.A. Van Der Kamp 1809-1816)
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
3rd President (1801-1809)
I join you [John Adams], therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character.”
“In every country and in every age the priest [any and every clergyman] has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”
Abraham Lincoln:
16th President (1861-1865)
“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” (to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death)
Mary Todd Lincoln:
“Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian.”