American Law Should Be 'Based On The God Of The Bible And The Ten Commandments'
--- Sarah Palin (http://tinyurl.com/2ftkvye) Part of the agument is that the Founding Fathers were Christian, and that their intent was for the US to be a Christian nation. I went digging online and found a great site about the early history of America: http://www.earlyamerica.com It's an historical preservation and eduction site; nonpartisan. I found these quotes: John Adams, 1796, "...the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Washington, 1789; Every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." Jefferson, 1787, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god." Madison, 1785, "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." Thomas Paine "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity." And, of course, there's the U.S. Constitution: There occurs only two references to religion and they both use exclusionary wording. The 1st Amendment's says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . ." and in Article VI, Section 3, ". . . no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
[ps: "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of [religious] congregations." --- Historian, Robert T. Handy]
Interesting, eh?
--- Sarah Palin (http://tinyurl.com/2ftkvye) Part of the agument is that the Founding Fathers were Christian, and that their intent was for the US to be a Christian nation. I went digging online and found a great site about the early history of America: http://www.earlyamerica.com It's an historical preservation and eduction site; nonpartisan. I found these quotes: John Adams, 1796, "...the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Washington, 1789; Every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." Jefferson, 1787, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god." Madison, 1785, "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." Thomas Paine "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity." And, of course, there's the U.S. Constitution: There occurs only two references to religion and they both use exclusionary wording. The 1st Amendment's says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . ." and in Article VI, Section 3, ". . . no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
[ps: "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of [religious] congregations." --- Historian, Robert T. Handy]
Interesting, eh?
Great stuff. Thanks for the information and the post.
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