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Debate: Did the Founding Fathers intend to apply their personal faith to the nation "As an institution"? (view source)
Revision as of 16:20, September 6, 2008
, 16:20, September 6, 2008→Yes, they intended to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"
==Yes, they intended to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==
==Yes, they intended to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==
There were no religious detractors in that day and age, unlike today. You were either a good, God-fearing man (thus respected) or you were a nobody. Much public record exists, not only the Founding Father's religious comments as it relates to the institutions of America, but from all walks of life in that period.
''Two historians at the University of Houston did a 10-year study of the ideas that shaped our republic. They started with 15,000 documents from the Colonial era, which were boiled down to 3,154 statements. The three most quoted individuals were French philosopher Montesquieu (8.3 percent), English jurist William Blackstone (7.9 percent) and English philosopher John Locke (2.9 percent). But Biblical citations dwarfed them all. Ninety-four percent of the founding fathers quotes were based on the Bible, 34 percent directly from its pages and 60 percent from men who had used the Bible to arrive at their conclusions.''
-- [[Image:50 star flag.png|14px]] [[User:Jpatt|jp]] 12:20, 6 September 2008 (EDT)
==No, they did not intend to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==
==No, they did not intend to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==