Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Was the United States a christian country?


The United States was a country founded on religion, but at that time they had several different key religions around. With freedom came religious freedom, this was what made us different from all the other countries. We didnt owe anything to the roman church who was the dominant force in those times. However, not all, but most individual state laws back then only recognized the protestant religion. With this only protestant people could vote and be elected, this was the states way of protecting the political office out of fear that different nationalities could inter into public office. Overall I believe that it wasn't based upon the christian religion but it was filled with all types of christian from all different sorts of backgrounds, which probably made it hard for the founding fathers to pick a religion and put it into the constitution. Also the passage talks about how they were trying to protect the church by keeping it separate from state, where the term separation of church and state. So this just shows why it was not founded on christian beliefs even though the majority of people in America at the time were christian, so some could argue both sides, I however will argue that it was filled with christians but the nation itself was not.

In what way did the people react when they found out that every religion was equal in the eyes of our constitution?

How did Madison judgement play a role in how our country would view religion?

Why did the states start executing different types of laws to their individual governments?

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