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Founding Fathers |
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian." --The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, p. 420 |
This page is a collection of quotes and is dedicated to debunking the popular Christian myth promoted by conservative, Christian organizations that this nation was founded by Christians, for Christians, in the image of the Christian god. George Washington - The first person to be President of the United States, and also a person with enough integrity and self control to step down from that high office, which not just a few people throroughly encouraged him not to vacate at the end of his elected term. John Adams - ...would think Pat Robertson is as batshit crazy and full of shit as every other sentient being who's not afflicted with the unfortunate psychosis of his followers. Thomas Jefferson - The raving Deistic heathen. Previously, the funda-mental-cases, used to love spouting about how the founding fathers had established a Christian nation, and we godless heathens would deeply enjoy throwing some Thomas Jefferson quotes at them. I suppose the infidels on the internet have gotten the truth out, maybe too effectively, because the GAWD luvin KKKristchuns in Techsus, actually ripped Thomas Fucking Jefferson from the text. Of course to those of us who are sane, this only makes them look even fucking crazier, and even more desperate, and even more lacking in any ability to define the terms "morality" or "integrity". Thomas Paine - "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." Benjamin Franklin - "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." James Madison - "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." Abraham Lincoln - "The bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." The United States Supreme Court - "It is beyond dispute that, at a minimum, the Constitution guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise..." |
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." ..........From the "Treaty of Tripoli" which was signed during the term of George Washington and ratified by congress during the term of John Adams. "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States" (U. S. Constitution, 1787, Art. 6, Sec. 3). "In 1776 our fathers endeavored to retire the gods from politics. They declared that "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." This was a contradiction of the then political ideas of the world; it was, as many believed, an act of pure blasphemy a renunciation of the Deity. ...It was a notice to all churches and priests that thereafter mankind would govern and protect themselves. Politically it tore down every altar and denied the authority of every "sacred book" and appealed from the Providence of God to the Providence of man." ..........Robert Ingersoll |