If America was truly founded by free thinkers, why are we predominantly biased Christians?
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I think you are wrong. True there are some Christians who try every chance they get to cram down your throat their version of their religion. And is it also true that in other religions that same type of narrow middle zealots exist. So the problem really is one of the zealots not getting along and not the billions of us left in the world who do get along.
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You infer correctly, and bravo for pointing this out.  People insist on it because that is what they want to believe, whether it is true or not.  They will insist that this is a "Christian" country, simply because Christianity is the main religion of the people.  In reality that doesn't mean squat to our Constitutional principles or freedoms.  If the founders wished to create a Christian nation they had the perfect opportunity to do so.  They chose instead to create a democratic republic in which religion has no say.  This fact gets conveniently ignored by fanatical Christians who think they automatically have the right to run everyone's lives.  They'll quote scripture as though it is civil law, but have little clue what the meaning of separation of church and state is at all.  Better education in our schools could help dissolve their ridiculous notion.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nAce?  For every quotation from a founder supporting the role of religion in government, I can produce two from the same founder speaking against it.  This debate went on for quite some time and the founders wrote and spoke about both sides of it extensively.  The proof in the pudding is that they had a chance to install a theocracy and chose not to do so.  They chose to keep that distance between church and state in the end.  How can you even argue with that when they didn't take the opportunity to create a theocracy?
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great post, ranger.\n\nanother thing, too.  christians have difficulty admitting they are a cult.  they are a cult, that's true.\n\nand you are right.  this country was not based on christianity, or the Framers would have declared that in all of those instruments you described.  at least one of them!  \n\nit's amazing where chrisitians "claim" to see christianity, even where it doesn't exist!!\n\nthe idiot, above, who said "you have a self-esteem issue yourself" simply because you posed this question -- he just proved part of your point for you.  these people never cease to amaze me.  i can hardly wait to see how many call you "angry" just for posting these facts.  they'll try to make you look bad, so they can look better, in their own eyes.\n\nsome idiots will come back and try to say "this country is over 2/3 christian" blah blah blah...\n\nwell, guess what?  this country is mostly WHITE.  so, is the US a "White Country"??  get real, you morons!!!\n\nanother thing -- before you clueless cows come on here yakking about "IGWT" on our currency (and "under god" in the pledge of allegiance), let's rememebr it never showed up on our currency until the McCarthy-paranoia of the 1950's.  The comment in the pledge was also added in the 1950's.  Also, IGWT was only placed on a very few US coins right after the Civil War, almost 100 years after the country's founding.  So, that's also an invalid argument.  These things came later!\n\nI already predict that people will lie and claim that most of the Framers were xians.  And then, they'll use "quotes" from madison and jefferson and many others -- quotes that these Framers NEVER QUOTED and that you will not find anywhere in the Smithsonian.  These are all quotes that have been re-edited by Falwell and Co. to make things "look christian".  Been there, done that.  Keep trying, folks.  Like Ranger, I feel sorry for you for needing to go to such lengths to make your religion look better.  It's too bad that you must lie like that!
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In all fairness, I have to say that there are both intelligent and not-so-intelligent people on both sides. However, the Christian fundamentalists have hijacked the Republican Party, and fundamentalists tend to be less educated than non-fundamentalists and are often intolerant of ambiguity. This is probably the main reason why Republicans often seem less than intelligent. And unfortunately, Bush exemplifies this.
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I guess it is because religion influences other parts of people's lifes outside of just when they go to church. Can you really expect it not to?\n\nEdit: And it is too bad everybody thinks that you are attacking them. I agree that a lot of people here are just too jumpy.\n\nAlso, I don't think it is fair to ask if we still have freedom in this country. First of all, this is the internet, and people from all different countries are on here, but more importantly, second of all, it is also that freedom we have that gives us the right to talk about god where we want to.\n\nEdit: Well with your rephrased question, I now have to agree with you 100%. We Christians are too judgmental of other people's beliefs, and I am just as guilty of it as anybody else. God tells us not to judge other people, and that is up to him. I guess us Christians are pretty hypocritical sometimes. I am sure that other people aren't going to want to read that, but it is true, so I am saying it none the less.
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LOL. Christians are the privileged ones in the United States. \n\nThey'd get a rude awakening if they were treated fairly.
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Americans, especially Christians, are quite often very contrary and hypocritical.
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I think it is because our country was founded by men who were deeply religious, posessed good moral values and truly believed that the constitution that they created would be the most fair blueprint for a new country.\nI think that when they declared a separation of church and state,  they really meant that no religion would ever rule the people, such as the christian religion used to, and the Islamic religion wants to. I do not believe that they meant that there could be no religious symbols in courthouses, or schools. After all, we do have the freedom to worship as we please. If i choose not to believe in the ten commandments, then the statues don't mean anything to me. Just as the roadside memorials to accident victims with crosses, wouldn't mean anything to me. They are just reminders.  To remind us that killing, adultery, theivery and the others are immoral. And the in god we trust on the money should remind us everytime we spend a dollar, that it is by the grace of god, christian or whatever you worship, that you have a dollar to spend. I think that all religions, except the dark ones, try to help us all reach a higher moral standard, the teachings are different, but mostly the desired outcome is the same.
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As you can see from the other answers, they obviously do not.  However, the 1st ammnd has been used by left-leaning, anti-christian, atheists so many times over for their agenda that the popular belief has become that the state and anything having to do with God cannot possibly coexist.  \n\nThe real and true intent of the statement was simply to prevent the US from becoming a theocracy, that which is a state ruled by a specific religious body (as was Iran).  So if you want to march into the capitol and start screaming the Our Father, go ahead.  Just don't expect the ACLU to come and defend your right to do that.\nAnti\nChristian \nLiberals\nUnited
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Our founding forefathers were Christians. This great country was built on Christian beliefs.  We will always be one nation under God and those whom that offends should GTFO & find another place to live.  I hear Bin Laden has room.\n\n"Funny how those who cry tolerance, refuse to tolerate and those who cry to be heard, refuse to listen."
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because there is always those attacking Christianity. no other religion, or way of life, pro-abortion, pro-gay etc., is attacked by the media, most groups, ACLU, people for the american way etc. and such. they deem anything straight from the bible is thinking closed minded, hate-full, or intolerant. although all these groups claim to be for tolerance, open minded and free speech. it is much quite the opposite.
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You might do well to remember that the USA was founded on the separation of church and state.\nRemember this famous quote; "Freedom can be measured by the distance between the state and the church."
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Because they were the founders of the greatest nation on earth. \n\nBecause they were mostly Christian men of ethics, high morals and values, and established the fair and equal rights of men.\n\nBecause they established the first Christian nation. \n\nBecause the created and established the first Constitution of its kind, limiting the power of the central government to less than that of the individual States and communities.\n\nBecause they established the first nation in the world where you could freely worship any God you choose, any way you choose, as long as it didn't involve blood sacrifice.\n\nDo you know who the most powerful man in your community is? Nobody knows this answer, including your teacher. Most think it is the President, or your Govenor, or the Mayor, or the FBI, or the Police. Give up? Our forefathers set it up so that nobody from a thousand miles away could tell our community what laws to enforce. The most powerful person in your community resides at the County Seat. He is the Sheriff! Whoa, you say, that can't be true, the lowly Sheriff? Yes, the Fed has turned everything around so that "they" can be the most powerful, but according to our Constitution, the Fed is the least powerful. \n\nAccording to our Constitution, the Fed has no rights in your State or your County. We should lock them up and take their guns when they cross our borders without permits, or send them packing back to D.C. where there only lawful jurisdiction is.
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America wants to dominate the world with no limits!\nIt's correct about the wars in our lands that made us hate American policy, and I think no one like to have a war in his region Also you!  But we don't hate Christians or their beliefs.
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I know I won't get the best answer, but I have to reply to this question. Before I begin; I just want to let you know that I too believe in God and Jesus Christ, but I also believe in the freedom of religion. God has given us free will; why can't we give the freedom of choice on religion.\n\nO.k. first of all, this country was not founded on Christianity, but more or less the freedom to choose which religion. See back in the time when this country was founded Christianity ruled the world and some of the people who didn't believe in it was shipped off to the Americas. US did not become a good place to be untill the discovery of gold.\n\nYes, in the past we were more religious then we are today, but it was not all Christian. Our national motto "In God we trust" was added to our original motto during the cold war, because Communists despised religion.\n\nNow with that being said I want to show you that it would piss more Christians off if they taught God in School.  See first of all you have to realize that even though we believe God to be 100% true, science does not. Science has found no proof on the exsistance of a God. With that being said the only way they could teach it in a school is say God is a theory. In other words they would say there is a belief in God, but it is not based on fact. This would piss me off if they taught it to my kids.\n\nNow as for throwing prayer and Christ out of schools, I totally agree with it. In a public school you can not be biased towards or against any religion, that would be prejudism. \n\nDon't complain that your school does not follow your beliefs. If schools went by everybodys beliefs there would be no time to teach.\n\nNow what I have to say to the people who think they need to have them in the schools is simply this: send your kids to a Christian school (they are better taught and have everything you are looking for in a school). That is what they are there for.
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you are right. and i see another piece of misinformation cropping up as well.  our founding fathers were not christian.  one was an atheist and the others were all Diest (belief in the clockwork structure of the universe.  God made it all, wound it up, and lets it go.  God does not take a personal or vested interest in any part of his creation.).  So no knowledge of the Treaty of Tripoli or that there were NO Christian Founding Fathers of America.
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America was founded on Christian beliefs. Are you suggesting that they close for a whole week? We are also a country of majority rule, and since the country is mainly Christian, majority rules. (Note, I am a non religous person)