(May 25, 2014 at 7:59 pm)Sludgeman101 Wrote: Here's a political/ religious question for my atheist brothers, sisters, and other, does the bible hold any significance anymore? Or is it full of useless ideas and rules? I know most of you will answer the latter, but what does that make of the constitution of the united states? Does it hold significance, or is it a dated document that is too aged to have any effect?
Please leave your opinion in the reply section below.
The bible has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the Constitution. I do not think the founders were idiots when they left out the words "Jesus" and "Christianity" in terms of setting up religious pecking orders. "No religious test" is in the oath of office.
Barbary treaty article 11 "As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" Signed without dissent by both houses of congress into a law June 10th 1797 by president John Adams.
"Freedom of religion" in the First Amendment had nothing to do with favoring Christianity first as a social pecking order. The part Christians hate is that the First Amendment was a ban on monopolies of power, an anti trust law. It was clear that even though the founders had a wide variety of beliefs, they did not want a government based on theocracy.
Our laws are written by us, not based on any holy book. Otherwise why put "No religious test" in the Constitution.
