RE: New to the forum
December 21, 2013 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm by Raeven.)
That's interesting, but sorry, none of that proves the intent of the Founding Fathers in their crafting of the Constitution. Of course, many of the pilgrims were Christians. So were some of the Founding Fathers. Some were also non-believers, and some were deists.
Nowhere does the Constitution say: "The United States is a Christian Nation", or anything even close to that. In fact, the words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, Creator, Divine, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution is religion mentioned, except in exclusionary terms. When the Founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3) This provision gives equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had.
If they wanted the United States to be founded as a Christian nation, I am sure they could have found room in the Constitution to say, "The United States is founded as a Christian nation." It does not.
The above DOES prove my point.
This is an Introductions thread and so further discussion of this matter should be carried on elsewhere. Sorry for the thread jack, Heretic. Welcome again.
Nowhere does the Constitution say: "The United States is a Christian Nation", or anything even close to that. In fact, the words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, Creator, Divine, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution is religion mentioned, except in exclusionary terms. When the Founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3) This provision gives equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had.
If they wanted the United States to be founded as a Christian nation, I am sure they could have found room in the Constitution to say, "The United States is founded as a Christian nation." It does not.
The above DOES prove my point.
This is an Introductions thread and so further discussion of this matter should be carried on elsewhere. Sorry for the thread jack, Heretic. Welcome again.
