Religion and Politics Do Not Mix

You may possibly have been taught in school that America was founded upon Christianity, but proof of such is not reflected in the writings of our founding fathers. In fact, the very first six American presidents were in fact opposed to the doctrine and dogma of Christianity.

Would you refer to prejudice and premeditated murder as Christian traits? One particular of our forefathers was so prejudiced against the American Natives that he when described them as "having absolutely nothing human except the shape" and as "a beast of prey." Recognized as the "Father of our Country", President George Washington was known as "The Town Destroyer," and "The Killer of Women and Youngsters" amongst the Onadaga Indian Consumers whom he and his militia killed in cold blood. Did fine ol' George (who couldn't tell a lie) believe this country was founded upon Christian fundamentals? Washington is quoted as saying, "The United States is in no sense founded upon Christian Doctrine."

John Adams, the second President of the United States, had tiny use for religion when he stated, "The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we acquire a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we come across in Christianity."

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence "located not one particular redeeming feature in orthodox Christianity" and added:

Christianity------the most perverted technique that ever shone on man. ------Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a huge band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the initial fantastic corrupter of the teaching of Jesus. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Getting as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may perhaps hope that the dawn of cause and the freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors.

Jefferson also named for limitation on the power of the Government, and was an advocate for the separation of Church and State.

James Madison, fourth president of the United States, believed no improved of religion when he mentioned: In the course of almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment identified as Christianity has been on trial, and what have been the fruits, alot more or much less, in all places? These are the fruits: pride, indolence, ignorance, and arrogance in the clergy. Ignorance, arrogance, and servility in the laity, and in both clergy and laity, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was no doubt a religious man who is remembered as a Christian President still, some say Lincoln was a skeptic of Christianity. He is quoted as saying, "The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never ever give assent to the lengthy difficult statements of Christian dogma." His views did not adjust throughout his political profession. He was later noted to say, "My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have grow to be clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."

Following Lincoln's assassination an American author and the editor of Scribner's Monthly named Dr. Josiah G. Holland wrote about Lincoln's religious views:

"------He believed in God, and ------believed himself to be beneath his control and guidance. ------This unwavering faith in a Divine Providence began at his mother's knee, and ran like a thread of gold through all the experiences of his life. His continuous sense of human duty was one of the forms by which his faith manifested itself. ------He recognized an instant relation between God and himself, in all the actions and passions of his life. He was not professedly a Christian-that is, he subscribed to no creed-joined no organization of Christian disciples. He spoke tiny------of his religious belief and experiences but that he had a deep religious life, typically imbued with superstition------."

Probably Lincoln recognized the distinction in spirituality which is our connection and relationship to our Creator, and religion which is the highly thing that attempts to separate us from 1 an additional and our Creator.

Aside from presidents, other founding fathers of notoriety agree that Christianity has small merit when it comes to governing a nation of many people. When Benjamin Franklin was asked about his religion, he said:

As to Jesus of Nazareth, I assume the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the most effective the Planet ever saw or is most likely to see but I apprehend it has received many different corrupting Alterations, and I have, with the most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts to his divinity. ------ I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the globe with any peculiar marks of his displeasure.

Deism is a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious philosophy and movement prominent in England and the United States. Deists ordinarily reject supernatural events and divine revelation popular to organized religion. Disregarding holy books and religions that affirm the existence of such factors, deists assistance religious beliefs have to be founded on human cause observation of the organic planet which reveal the existence of a supreme becoming. Deist Thomas Paine had a robust opinion about religion:

I do not think in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My personal thoughts is my personal Church. ------Of all the tyrannies that have an effect on mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is component of the Bill of Rights which prevents legislature that establishes a national religion by Congress or that prefers or supports one religion more than a further. The Very first Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the zero cost exercise thereof." This component of the Very first Amendment is sometimes referred to as "the separation of church and state" which indicates that the state or national government should be kept separate from religious institutions.

I doubt the Ten Commandments were posted in courthouses in the course of the early days of U.S. history. Our founding fathers proposed the 1st Amendment and rejected Christianity as a ruling aspect in government and political concerns. Immediately after being ruled by a government which tried to synchronize the beliefs of the entire population, they were fed up with becoming told what to do and what to think. They wanted religious freedom. These days, we as citizens nevertheless want religious freedom, but there can be no religious freedom when one particular religion controls the masses through government. Yet, this is specifically what has occurred in our nation. Religious groups attempt to control the government by imposing laws that make a decision what a marriage is, what can be grown in our backyard and what medical investigation can be federally funded.

Each and every time a law is passed that offers jurisdiction more than what takes place in a person's home, marriage, healthcare or religion, we shed one other individual proper that was assured in the laws made use of to located our country. It's time to stand up and vote against bills and amendments that take away the a single thing our founding fathers did have in normal-freedom from religion.