Popping the Long-Standing Bubble of Misunderstanding
We will first start with a couple of videos that show a bit of what some people claim to be the truth in regards to the founding of the United States of America. Pay close attention to the presented statements and who supposedly made them. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and even Patrick Henry are a few of the fellows listed as having endorsed the idea that the USA was founded on Christianity.
Pastor John Hagee renders a heart-felt rant that the USA was created by Christians for Christians. That's right, Hagee, you are all for limiting any religion so long as it isn't yours. Total turd.
Oh, look what we have here. A cross between a Christian fundamentalist and Ike Eisenhower...with just a touch of General Patton. Stop eating the Twinkies, buddy.
Now, dear friend, let us rebut the first three videos. Notice that the statements offered are statements made by the very same folks that some claim to have made assertions that this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity.
This country's Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were NOT founded on Christianity or the Bible or on or by Jesus. This guy addresses the issue here in a clear and concise manner. Very well done.
Don't you just love it when people try to backtrack or reform the available information into something that better suits their needs? The Founding Fathers DID express great concern in relation to ethics and moral standing when contributing to the foundations of this country, yes. However, they did not view mixing religion and politics as a good idea on any level. And yes, Jefferson DID pen the 'Jeffersonian Bible' with the intent and purpose of removing the bullshit (like the virgin birth of Christ...which Jefferson thought absurdly ludicrous and useless) and leaving the information that provided something of relative value. I love it when Christians try to debunk valid, provable history.
Here is a bit on the Jeffersonian Bible that some of the uber-religious, must-prove-America-was-founded-on-the-Bible folks of the nation should really watch.
And here is another link for the viewing pleasure of those refusing to let go of the thought this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity.
Christians are loathe to ANY information that would result in any kind of loosening of their grip on the absurdly INCORRECT idea that this nation was founded on the Bible and Christianity. They simply cannot let this idea go, can they? Of course not. Doing so would be an admission if huge lies and purposeful misinterpretation of founding documents. So, what is done is careful formulation of MORE lies that are intended to validate the utter stupidity that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, by Christians, and for Christians.
Our founding fathers knew better than to mix religion and politics.
Politics requires reason, not religion. Once you mix religion and politics you fuck things up royally. That isn't to say that religious folk cannot think; many intelligent people are religious. The politics of any nation and the rules and laws and regulations of any nation should be founded upon reason and not under any circumstance founded on what some invisible guy in the sky or His employees say to do.
Ask a person who believes that this nation was founded on Christianity WHEN the Pledge of Allegiance and the nations money added the phrase 'Under God' and you will find many of them truly think they were initially written with such. Nope. Didn't come about until the 1950s.
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