America's Christian roots

[jaigner]

Let's be honest. Both sides revise history, either fabricating, taking out of context or exaggerating their points.

It's almost natural for this to happen.

 

[Baptist Believer]

Let's be honest. Both sides revise history, either fabricating, taking out of context or exaggerating their points.

Well, I appreciate the sentiment, but I try to be as fair and evenhanded as possible. However, I do not knowingly engage in deception.

There are more than two sides to this issue, so your point is a gross over-simplification. But in the age of sound-bite debates and a general ignorance of how to interpret history, one almost always has to over-simplify to make concise points.

Honest historians will freely tell you they are over-simplifying and will be able to discuss the issues much more deeply than to just throw out out-of-context quotes and claim everyone else is wrong.

A number of the founders (however we want to define that group) WERE devout Christians. However that doesn't mean they wanted Christianity to be supported by the government - which is what many people wrongly assume.

 

[windcatcher]

Like it or not..... religion will have a political impact upon the conscience of its people. You cannot separate religion from the state in the sense you cannot remove religion from its influence upon its people and their influence upon the state. For this to be accomplished the state must divorce or separate the people from their religion: This would leave a spiritual void ........ and the only way the state can fill a spiritual void is to create its own religion through which it controls the people. Between the Pope, Baird, Warren, and others interested.... this may be accomplished one day..... Then the 'state' will establish a religion.

While our government may not correctly be considered 'a Christian government'..... one can easily demonstrate by comparing its structure and the principals set forth in its formation, that it was founded on Biblical principals generally considered as 'Christian'.

Reference...... THE 5000 YEAR LEAP by Skousen.