Oy. I'm a religious man, but I came to religion through logic (I look at a cell and see a machine with hundreds of moving parts configured with a quadrary programming language and can't accept that that happened without divine guidance of some kind). That being the case, I can't delude myself with certain 'facts' that religious people are known for spouting. The whole "We were founded on Christianity" thing is one of those things.
Here are the facts: Yes, we do have strong Christian roots in this country. They start at Plymouth Rock. A huge percentage of us can trace our ancestry to the Pilgrims, who were so uptight in there religion that the Brits kicked them out. However, we also have equally strong Diest and Humanist roots (whether you consider Humanism a religion or not the Humanists of 200 years ago did). Yes the founding fathers looked to the Bible for inspiration, but that's only because there are some dang good ideas for laws in there. They had no intention of using it as a cornerstone to build the nation on, nor would we have wanted them to. One of the concepts this nation was founded upon is that of religious freedom. How much religious freedom could we have if the whole nation was built on Christianity? None. As much as I would like to say the founding fathers were Christian and build the nation on Christian ideals it just isn't true. History tells us a very different story of our founding fathers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
