Pssst...Fundies - America Was Not Set Up As A Christian Nation

[McKenzie]

Don't believe me? Read this web page that I posted on DU a long time ago. I have decided to post it again because I am fed up reading your self righteous (pun fully intended) proclamations all over the Internet. Your opinions are at variance with historical fact.

Here is my challenge to you fundies: Take the comments of the Founding Fathers, which are part of the historical record, and debate them at length. Then ask yourselves openly and honestly...if those wise men who founded America rejected Christianity as the basis on which to found the country on what authority is your position founded? That is a rhetorical question in my opinion because the answer is self evident. And just to whet your appetite for curiosity here are two selected comments:

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!" - John Adams

"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. " - Thomas Paine

Is that clear enough or do you think Adams and Paine meant something else?

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html

[NMMNG]

1. Many of them know that

But they perpetuate the myth for two major reasons:

1. When they take over America in the name of Christianity, they'll get less resistance since they're "restoring it to it's Christian origins".
2. When anybody tries to stop them they can more easily claim "Christian persecution". After all, if this is a Christian Nation then how dare anybody question anything a Christian does?