My post was not about correlation. It was about simple truth. In history classes do we leave out the religious beliefs of other countries founding governments? Do we leave out the fact that the Ottoman Empire was Muslim? The fact that the Romans were polytheistic? No because these facts had a decided factor on their original government and their cultures. Neither side(Christian or athiest) should be able to overstate or understate/erase the truth. In case I have to spell it out, I condemn what the Christians in Texas are doing to the textbooks and I condemn all the atheists on this topic who think Christianity had ZERO to do with the founding of America.
Yes, we should just do away with religion all together it worked out great for communist countries like the USSR, oh wait they don't exist anymore. Let's see, who still bans religion? China, North Korea and Cuba. Anyone live there and post on this website? I didn't think so, those countries have filtered or non-existent access to the web. Like it or not, the majority of the founding fathers of this country and those who wrote the Constitution were Christians. Should this relation be over-stated or exaggerated? Definitely not. Modern atheists who think, "people who believe in God or practice a religion are weak and ignorant" would like to see the correlation between Christianity and the founding of the United States erased from the history books. It takes more strength to believe in something you can't prove than to sit around and whine about how ignorant the rest of the world is. I wonder if that strength had anything to do with how the founding fathers fought an empire and founded a new country with religious freedoms for all (1st Amendment). You are free to believe in absolutely nothing and others are free to believe in anything they want. People on either side should NOT be allowed to re-write history in favor of their own personal views.
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My post was not about correlation. It was about simple truth. In history classes do we leave out the religious beliefs of other countries founding governments? Do we leave out the fact that the Ottoman Empire was Muslim? The fact that the Romans were polytheistic? No because these facts had a decided factor on their original government and their cultures. Neither side(Christian or athiest) should be able to overstate or understate/erase the truth. In case I have to spell it out, I condemn what the Christians in Texas are doing to the textbooks and I condemn all the atheists on this topic who think Christianity had ZERO to do with the founding of America.
Yes, we should just do away with religion all together it worked out great for communist countries like the USSR, oh wait they don't exist anymore. Let's see, who still bans religion? China, North Korea and Cuba. Anyone live there and post on this website? I didn't think so, those countries have filtered or non-existent access to the web. Like it or not, the majority of the founding fathers of this country and those who wrote the Constitution were Christians. Should this relation be over-stated or exaggerated? Definitely not. Modern atheists who think, "people who believe in God or practice a religion are weak and ignorant" would like to see the correlation between Christianity and the founding of the United States erased from the history books. It takes more strength to believe in something you can't prove than to sit around and whine about how ignorant the rest of the world is. I wonder if that strength had anything to do with how the founding fathers fought an empire and founded a new country with religious freedoms for all (1st Amendment). You are free to believe in absolutely nothing and others are free to believe in anything they want. People on either side should NOT be allowed to re-write history in favor of their own personal views.