Continuing my battle against misconceptions of history or shall we just say ignorance in America, I would like to report on American’s idea about Christianity and our Constitution.
An annual poll is conducted by a group called the “First Amendment Center”, a non-partisan educational group to measure attitudes towards the freedom of religion, speech and the press in this country.
They found that 55% thought that the Founding fathers wrote Christianity into the Constitution thus establishing a Christian nation.
Another 58% thought that public school teachers should be allowed to lead prayers. This feeling is rising annually.
Only 56% of the people thought that freedom of religion applies to everyone no matter how extreme their beliefs. The shocking thing is that this is down from 72% in the year 2000.
One person reviewing the results of this poll found it very ironic that Bush is sending our troops to their deaths to establish a “secular” democracy in Iraq while the bozos here, including Bush, want to establish a Christian state in the U.S. – duh?
The poll clearly shows that the American population is getting dumber and dumber when it comes to historic “truths” and this is why we are experiencing such an unprecedented surge of, what I consider, un-American feelings towards others and towards our country in general.
These people do not know what America stands for!
Why is that? Do our schools just not teach the facts? Do we just gloss over subjects like the Civil War with easy but not totally correct answers like “the civil war was about slavery” – next subject.
I have intelligent friends that still ask where the “Separation of Church and State” comes from; it is not in our Constitution. Where does it say “freedom FROM religion…” etc?
Why doesn’t the public know that our Founding Fathers were “deists?” They did not believe in “man made religions”, they just believed that a god or supernatural power, started the whole shebang but then nature took its course.
Our Founding fathers also knew that religion and politics did not mix and they put that into our Constitution so they would NEVER mix but why do people of today want it to mix and become one doing everything opposite of what our Founding Fathers prescribed..
It all boils down to religious kooks trying to take over our nation and turn it into an IRAN. Iran is a theocracy - EVEN though these kooks are against Muslim theocracies – but if it is a Christian theocracy it is OK.
I have a feeling that Americans listen to people that pretend to know – demagogues – and do not know themselves or care to do any research themselves to learn the FACTS. They are becoming sheep but obnoxious sheep; sheep that think they know everything.
An annual poll is conducted by a group called the “First Amendment Center”, a non-partisan educational group to measure attitudes towards the freedom of religion, speech and the press in this country.
They found that 55% thought that the Founding fathers wrote Christianity into the Constitution thus establishing a Christian nation.
Another 58% thought that public school teachers should be allowed to lead prayers. This feeling is rising annually.
Only 56% of the people thought that freedom of religion applies to everyone no matter how extreme their beliefs. The shocking thing is that this is down from 72% in the year 2000.
One person reviewing the results of this poll found it very ironic that Bush is sending our troops to their deaths to establish a “secular” democracy in Iraq while the bozos here, including Bush, want to establish a Christian state in the U.S. – duh?
The poll clearly shows that the American population is getting dumber and dumber when it comes to historic “truths” and this is why we are experiencing such an unprecedented surge of, what I consider, un-American feelings towards others and towards our country in general.
These people do not know what America stands for!
Why is that? Do our schools just not teach the facts? Do we just gloss over subjects like the Civil War with easy but not totally correct answers like “the civil war was about slavery” – next subject.
I have intelligent friends that still ask where the “Separation of Church and State” comes from; it is not in our Constitution. Where does it say “freedom FROM religion…” etc?
Why doesn’t the public know that our Founding Fathers were “deists?” They did not believe in “man made religions”, they just believed that a god or supernatural power, started the whole shebang but then nature took its course.
Our Founding fathers also knew that religion and politics did not mix and they put that into our Constitution so they would NEVER mix but why do people of today want it to mix and become one doing everything opposite of what our Founding Fathers prescribed..
It all boils down to religious kooks trying to take over our nation and turn it into an IRAN. Iran is a theocracy - EVEN though these kooks are against Muslim theocracies – but if it is a Christian theocracy it is OK.
I have a feeling that Americans listen to people that pretend to know – demagogues – and do not know themselves or care to do any research themselves to learn the FACTS. They are becoming sheep but obnoxious sheep; sheep that think they know everything.
I will admit, on the other hand, that the this subject of Church & State and the original intent of our Founding Fathers needs to be revisited every so often just to remind people where our Founders stood and what our Constitution stands for. President Bush is violating the spirit if not the letter of our Constitutional law with his federal support of "faith based" groups. What is a common citizen on the street to think when his president is ignoring the Constitution.
I am not going to get into a whole discourse on the subject (maybe later) but lets make a few things quite clear. In the "Article of the Treaty of Tripoli" signed by John Adams and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the opening line is: "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...". These are the dudes that should know what the hell they had in mind with the Constitution, OK?
Also, religious sects escaping prosecution from state religions in Europe like the Pilgrims and Puritans, ironically passed laws in their own states baring other sects from freely practicing their own religions - can you believe it?
Anyway, our Founders eliminated all that by stipulating in the Constitution as Amendment I: "Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...".
Thomas Jefferson, one of the authors of the Constitution was asked to clarify the above amendment as it pertains to religion replied that it is meant to specifically create a WALL OF SEPARATION between Church and State. This is plain and clear and from one of the authors so quit trying to interpret what they meant.
All I can say is do not put up with historical inaccuracies. If you see or read something that you know is inaccurate; stamp it out by challenging it, otherwise lies will just be propagated until people will take them for truths.
More on ignorance…
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