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Re:Better off not working for them… (Score:5, Informative)

by commodore64_love (1445365) on Sunday May 10, @10:33AM (#27896489)

The founding fathers were not atheists. They were nearly-all Protestant, with a few being Deist (believed in God but not church doctrine). Don’t spread mythology about them being atheists.

Re:Better off not working for them… (Score:5, Informative)

by geekboy642 (799087) on Sunday May 10, @12:02PM (#27897183)
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The important point, which I don’t think the GP illustrated clearly, was this:
The founding fathers had just left a country deeply steeped in religion. They specifically wanted a country where religion didn’t affect the government at all. “Congress shall make no law…” is a direct response to the (iirc) Anglican church that was essentially controlled by the king. Anyone with any sense will not claim that the US was intended to be a christian nation, as that is an absolute falsehood.

And as for your actual post, here’s this:

I do not believe 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…Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.” — Thomas Paine

“Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, “This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!” — John Adams

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” — James Madison

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” — The 1797 United States Senate, in a treaty signed with Tripoli

They absolutely were not nearly-all protestant. Most of them were, at the most, Deist, with a few being what would now be called Atheists. Please learn your own history.

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