Are any of those things exclusive to Christianity? No.
Go look up the Code of Hammurabi. It's all in there, and that predates the Bible.
Yes, Christianity has had much influence on our country. So has Theism. Go look at how many of our Founding Fathers were Theists. Theism is not the same as Christianity.
Other religions have also left their mark. Especially Judaism.
So, while Christianity has greatly influenced our country, it is not exclusively a Christian nation.
I would be interested in knowing what things that are exclusive to Christianity is included in those reasons.
Because I can pick and choose from so many religious texts and come up with the same values the the AI bot has spit out for you.
I would not say Hammurabi's code written in the time of ancient Babylon was something the founders aspired for their constitution. Sure it was a set of written rules which was revolutionary for the time, but these rules were not fair at all by our standards. For example, if a doctor accidentally killed his patient during an operation the doctor would lose his hand. Not to mention there were different standards of justice for different classes of people.
Go look at how many of our Founding Fathers were Theists.
Lol, I think you mean Deists. And that narrative reeks of Marxist propaganda to me. Can you prove they were Deists by citing from some of your 'many religious texts' that you are so well versed in?
You're right, I did mean Deists. Thanks for catching that.
Many of our own laws from the Founding Fathers were considered unfair as well. Especially that whole slavery thing.
The many religious texts had to do with laws from other religions, not with which of our founders were Deists.
I'm sure that your research skills are adequate enough to find information on Deism among the Founding Fathers. But off the top of my head, have you ever read Thomas Jefferson's version of the Holy Bible where he removed the parts about Jesus Christ performing miracles and other parts that he considered part of the supernatural?
I'm sure that your research skills are adequate enough to find information on Deism among the Founding Fathers.
So I looked up Deism and this is the definition from Wikipedia: Deism is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology[5] that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.[11] More simply stated, Deism is the belief in the existence of God—often, but not necessarily, an impersonal and incomprehensible God who does not intervene in the universe after creating it,[8][12] solely based on rational thought without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority.[13] Deism emphasizes the concept of natural theology—that is, God's existence is revealed through nature.[14]
So I think you are trying to make the argument that the founders are not Christian and did not intend for this country to be founded on Christian values? According to this definition, Deism is a philosophy, not a religion. Why can't the founders be both Christian and Deist (aka view the bible from a rational/logical viewpoint)?
The Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence use words like "Divine Providence" and "Creator" and you believe they were referring to a non-denominational, catch all type God? Not to mention the subsequent states constitutions that were formed thereafter. 44 out of 50 of them use words like the "Almighty God", etc.
But the biggest question I would have for you is if religion or Christianity meant so little to the founders, why did they even mention God at all in their works?
I think our Founding Fathers wanted religious freedom, and deliberately worded our founding documents to reflect that.
I think that they looked at one of the main reasons why people first came to the country (fleeing religious persecution) and wanted to avoid that.
I think while many of them were from Christian backgrounds, they chose to not make this a theocracy.
People seem to have the impression that because most of our Founders were Christian that they had no choice but to make this a theocracy based on Christianity. It's like it's inconceivable to them that Christians were capable of putting their own religious beliefs aside for the formation of this country.
If they had intended for this to be a theocracy based on Christianity, they had every opportunity to do so. They could have stated it outright.
But they didn't do that. They went to all the trouble of not mentioning Christianity anywhere in our founding documents and the one time they referenced any sort of deity, they chose to make it as generic as possible and calling it "the Creator" and not "God" or "Yahweh" or "Allah" or "Ganesh" or "Thor".
While this is certainly giving preferential treatment to monotheism, it doesn't in any way state which god people want to worship. And they mentioned a Creator simply because the vast majority of the population was (and still is) religious, and religion factored greatly in their lives. It was simply important to them.
Are any of those things exclusive to Christianity? No.
Go look up the Code of Hammurabi. It's all in there, and that predates the Bible.
Yes, Christianity has had much influence on our country. So has Theism. Go look at how many of our Founding Fathers were Theists. Theism is not the same as Christianity.
Other religions have also left their mark. Especially Judaism.
So, while Christianity has greatly influenced our country, it is not exclusively a Christian nation.
I would be interested in knowing what things that are exclusive to Christianity is included in those reasons.
Because I can pick and choose from so many religious texts and come up with the same values the the AI bot has spit out for you.
I would not say Hammurabi's code written in the time of ancient Babylon was something the founders aspired for their constitution. Sure it was a set of written rules which was revolutionary for the time, but these rules were not fair at all by our standards. For example, if a doctor accidentally killed his patient during an operation the doctor would lose his hand. Not to mention there were different standards of justice for different classes of people.
Lol, I think you mean Deists. And that narrative reeks of Marxist propaganda to me. Can you prove they were Deists by citing from some of your 'many religious texts' that you are so well versed in?
You're right, I did mean Deists. Thanks for catching that.
Many of our own laws from the Founding Fathers were considered unfair as well. Especially that whole slavery thing.
The many religious texts had to do with laws from other religions, not with which of our founders were Deists.
I'm sure that your research skills are adequate enough to find information on Deism among the Founding Fathers. But off the top of my head, have you ever read Thomas Jefferson's version of the Holy Bible where he removed the parts about Jesus Christ performing miracles and other parts that he considered part of the supernatural?
So I looked up Deism and this is the definition from Wikipedia: Deism is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology[5] that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.[11] More simply stated, Deism is the belief in the existence of God—often, but not necessarily, an impersonal and incomprehensible God who does not intervene in the universe after creating it,[8][12] solely based on rational thought without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority.[13] Deism emphasizes the concept of natural theology—that is, God's existence is revealed through nature.[14]
So I think you are trying to make the argument that the founders are not Christian and did not intend for this country to be founded on Christian values? According to this definition, Deism is a philosophy, not a religion. Why can't the founders be both Christian and Deist (aka view the bible from a rational/logical viewpoint)?
The Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence use words like "Divine Providence" and "Creator" and you believe they were referring to a non-denominational, catch all type God? Not to mention the subsequent states constitutions that were formed thereafter. 44 out of 50 of them use words like the "Almighty God", etc.
But the biggest question I would have for you is if religion or Christianity meant so little to the founders, why did they even mention God at all in their works?
I think our Founding Fathers wanted religious freedom, and deliberately worded our founding documents to reflect that.
I think that they looked at one of the main reasons why people first came to the country (fleeing religious persecution) and wanted to avoid that.
I think while many of them were from Christian backgrounds, they chose to not make this a theocracy.
People seem to have the impression that because most of our Founders were Christian that they had no choice but to make this a theocracy based on Christianity. It's like it's inconceivable to them that Christians were capable of putting their own religious beliefs aside for the formation of this country.
If they had intended for this to be a theocracy based on Christianity, they had every opportunity to do so. They could have stated it outright.
But they didn't do that. They went to all the trouble of not mentioning Christianity anywhere in our founding documents and the one time they referenced any sort of deity, they chose to make it as generic as possible and calling it "the Creator" and not "God" or "Yahweh" or "Allah" or "Ganesh" or "Thor".
While this is certainly giving preferential treatment to monotheism, it doesn't in any way state which god people want to worship. And they mentioned a Creator simply because the vast majority of the population was (and still is) religious, and religion factored greatly in their lives. It was simply important to them.