USA Meant to be a Govt. Consistent w/Christian Scriptures?

Did the Founding Fathers intend for the United States to have a government that was consistent with Christian scriptures?

I say yes.

How about you?

I don't think it really matters at this point...the separation of Church and State has become such a pervasive principle in our political and legal philosophy that what was "intended" then and what actually is now don't necessarily have to be congruent. Besides, the Constitution is a living, evolving document. Who's to say in another 100 years or so we don't find ourselves swinging back in the direction of scripturally based legal codes?

What is meant by "consistent with Christian scripture"?

Does it mean that governmental law should not violate Christian scripture?

Yes, and let's start toward that today.

Historic Side-lights - Google Book Search

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But also check from page 158 onward.

I am Christian, but I truly don't believe that our founding father wanted have government controlled by Biblical Scripture. Biblical interpretation is a human thing. Many times the scripture is interpreted by people who want political power, and it can even be rewritten to show a particular point of view. sometime the Modern versions of the Bible seem say that changes have been made to make it easier to understand. That is just mumbo jumbo for writing it my way. I use the King James version in the church I belong to, but I have actually read three other versions of the bible, and studied other versions on line.

1. Europe 1776 was still involved in religious strife, which had been going on for hundreds of years, between catholics and catholics, protestant and protestants, protestant and catholic, between Orthodox and Catholic or protestant, and between moslems and christians.. Some strife was happening in the Virginia Colony and other colonies which had adopted the Church of England as the colony state church. Under the Articles of Confederation.

Before getting degrees in counseling, I have earned a Bachelors with a duel majors in European and American history.

Many of our founders were Christians of different faiths. A large group of our founders, including 3 presidents were Free Masons. Get any decent history book from any college library and read.

There are transcriptions of the constitutional convention in the Library of Congress.

Our founder basically took a look at Europe and hundreds of years of religious death, and said NO

The first amendment refers to government. The freedom of speech, religion, and assembly were put together on purpose in one amendment. There is was much talk of freedom from Religion at the convention, but those word were not put in because MANY OF the founders were christian. yet they did not want religious strife and death in the United States. So we ended up with the bill of rights. which was ratified by first thirteen states, and even that was not easy process. One state held out for a while, but I cannot remember which one. In the preamble of the constitution, it say the government OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE.

Later the constitution was interpreted by our founders in the first first halls of congress and by Washington, Jefferson, Adams in the executive.

So after 40 years of work, ended up free, without a state religion, People can say, think, or write what ever they want.

Right wingers and sometimes left wingers really hate this freedom that our founders worked for 40 years to give us.

We ended up with America, not some strange political theocracy.

Those who want to change this are like Bush, Stupid. they want to use religion to get and hold political power. Not for the love of Jesus, but for the love of power

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They don't give a dam whether you are saved or not, even though they will preach and sermonize forever about the state of your soul. They just want control, wealth, and power. The same stuff happened in Europe for hundreds of years.

brav-freakin-o!!!

the last paragraph is just my opinion.

1636?
1642?

Just out of curiousity, which of our "founding fathers" was actually alive at that time?

While I have no doubt that there have been men in U.S. history who wished to establish a more "theocratical" approach to government, the FOUNDING FATHERS were specified.

Lets not and just avoid the whole situation they currently have in the middle east...