Quote: America is a christian country
- Lots of Americans
This is an unsubstantiated opinion of lots of modern fundie nut jobs who fail to understand that their particular brand of religious nuttery did not even develop until the late 19th century and which was English ( John Nelson Darby ) in origin.
Courtesy of Wiki:
Quote:Fundamentalist movement in the United States
Fundamentalism had multiple roots in British and American theology of the 19th century.[13] One root was Dispensationalism, a new interpretation of the Bible developed in the 1830s in England. It was a millenarian theory that divided all of time into seven different stages, called "dispensations," which were seen as stages of God's revelation. At the end of each stage, according to this theory, God punished humanity for having been found wanting in God's testing. Secularism, liberalism, and immorality in the 1920s were believed to be signs that humanity had again failed God's testing. This means that the world is on the verge of the last stage, where a final battle will take place at Armageddon, followed by Christ's return and 1,000 year reign.[14] One important sign is the rebirth of Israel, support for which became the centerpiece of Fundamentalist foreign policy.[15]
A second stream came from Princeton Theology in the mid-19th century, which developed the doctrine of inerrancy in response to higher criticism of the Bible.[16][17] The work of Charles Hodge influenced fundamental insistence that the Bible was inerrant because it had been dictated by God and written by men who took that dictation. This meant that the Bible should be read differently from any other historical document, and also that modernism and liberalism were believed to lead people to hell just like non-Christian religions.[18]
A third strand—and the name itself—came from a 12-volume study The Fundamentals, published 1910-1915.[19] Sponsors subsidized the free distribution of over three million individual volumes to clergy, laymen and libraries. This version[20] stressed several core beliefs, including:
The inerrancy of the Bible
The literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles and the Creation account in Genesis.
The Virgin Birth of Christ
The bodily resurrection and physical return of Christ
The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross
The intellectual leaders of the American Revolution were Deists in large part. One assumes that the rank and file were mainly CofE ( cake or death!) except in Maryland which was founded by catholics and perhaps New York where portions retained their Dutch heritage.
In any case, the lunatic insistence of fundies that what they believe now was commonplace in 1776 is simply fucking bullshit.
