The Blue Board

I like to be helpful, so here goes. The world didn't know the notions of equal rights and freedom and liberty until the Christians came. Our strong ideas of liberty we owe to Scripture. The Founders wanted to create a political document, not a theological treatise, so Biblical citations would have been left out. However, they relied heavily on Scripture for most of their ideals.

So the Crusades were okay?

Why would you ask this?

The Crusades were not out of Christian ideals. They were power hungry people claiming the favor of God to act out of their own desires.

Because I was wondering the answer to it. Dumb.

There should be separation between the church and the state....

Onto the next thought, would you rather have a social worker run the country who tries to figure out how to get more for the less fortunate by using the system....ex: food stamps, welfare, etc..

Or an individual determined to repair the economy and give people incentive to work??

The longer you extend unemployment benefits and food stamps...the less incentive it gives people to go out and better themselves by working...

With all due respect, that's a dumb assertion made by those who want to dislike the Church. The good the Church has accomplished throughout the world far outweighs the bad. To answer your question, the Crusades started out as an honorable mission, but was unfortunately hijacked by non-Christians who did bad things in the name of the Church.

Just not historically accurate. Jefferson was a deist. Most of the Founders were Christian.

Yeah because being Native American is hard as hell. I don't think they chose to have their land/language/history/education system illegally taken, and population decimated. People don't just recover quickly from that to assimilate into society. The US government owes tribes billions of dollars and will probably never pay, the least they could do is send some of them to college for free. The funny part in all of this is you are a Seminoles fan.

John Adams stated "The general principles on which the fathers achieved Independence were ... the general principles of Christianity

Ben Franklin, at the Constitutional Convention, said: "...God governs in the affairs of men.

George Washington said in his final address:
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports".

Don't fool yourself. The first act in the very frat continental congressional session was to open in a Christian prayer Which always ended in "Jesus Christ" thy son and savior". This country was founded on a Christian, Moral structure. These men Werent gonna add you had to be Christian in the constitution. That would have defeated the whole purpose.

Now why would you want to bring historical facts into an "enlightened" debate?

Correct, I don't attend any specific church but at times find myself in prayer to the higher power I believe in. I grew up in the Methodist Church (didn't like it) but again, our country allows people of all faiths to practice their religion and they shouldn't be subjected to laws of one particular faith.

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

Treaty of Tripoli, Article XI.

John Adams thought it was important enough to put in writing that it wasn't.