Christian Nation
The myth of a Christian nation:
The Religious Right’s prevailing myth that our country was founded as a Christian nation has always been just that a myth, a lie, a fable, a story in the same company as George Washington’s cutting down the cherry tree. So I thought I would share some great quotes from our “founding fathers” that ought to dispell such sillyness. There are many more like the following but these make the point well enough I think.
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” - Thomas Jefferson […]
“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together” - James Madison […]
“I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book [the Bible].” - Thomas Paine […]
“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” - John Adams
I suspect these folks will be unpersuaded. Then again, they also say that 93% of Americans are Christian and cite as their source a reference that says 76% of American adults identify as Christian, so what’re you going to do?
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