I need proof that the United States is a Christian Country...?

[screwyoujesus]

but i am unable to locate the words: Jesus, Christ, or Christian ANYWHERE in the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independance, etc.

Please help!
ha, its funny when they think that though.
ONLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ARE TAX-EXHEMPT? you are soooo ignorant gay-ge

 

[RjinswandtheDoctor]

OMG REALLY???? *desperately looks over the constitution with a magnifying glass*

You're right!!! Maybe that means...that....that....it ISN'T a Christian nation!!!

OH NOES!

P.S. lolz

 

[johninjc]

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
John Jay
In a letter to John Murray 10/12/1816
http://books.google.com/books?id=V50EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA376&dq=%22Providence+has+given+to+our+people+the+choice+of+their+rulers%22&ei=ePMHR5LDMZXC7AKArImDAg&hl=en#

We have a really good record keeping system from the days of our founders. You should take some time and read the declerations and proclamations our founders wrote at the beginning of this great country. They are located in the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html

The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men. The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion in the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress to concern itself with religion, the citizenry did not object to such activities. This lack of objection suggests that both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, nonpolemical Christianity.

Congress appointed chaplains for itself and the armed forces, sponsored the publication of a Bible, imposed Christian morality on the armed forces, and granted public lands to promote Christianity among the Indians. National days of thanksgiving and of "humiliation, fasting, and prayer" were proclaimed by Congress at least twice a year throughout the war. Congress was guided by "covenant theology," a Reformation doctrine especially dear to New England Puritans, which held that God bound himself in an agreement with a nation and its people. This agreement stipulated that they "should be prosperous or afflicted, according as their general Obedience or Disobedience thereto appears." Wars and revolutions were, accordingly, considered afflictions, as divine punishments for sin, from which a nation could rescue itself by repentance and reformation.

The first national government of the United States, was convinced that the "public prosperity" of a society depended on the vitality of its religion. Nothing less than a "spirit of universal reformation among all ranks and degrees of our citizens," Congress declared to the American people, would "make us a holy, that so we may be a happy people."



Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Congress set December 18, 1777, as a day of thanksgiving on which the American people "may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor" and on which they might "join the penitent confession of their manifold sins . . . that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance." Congress also recommends that Americans petition God "to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.'"
Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, November 1, 1777

Read the original document at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006494.jpg

Another Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Congress set November 28, 1782, as a day of thanksgiving on which Americans were "to testify their gratitude to God for his goodness, by a cheerful obedience to his laws, and by promoting, each in his station, and by his influence, the practice of true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness."
Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, October 11, 1782

Original document at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006491.jpg

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06.html
Adams's Fast Day Proclamation
John Adams continued the practice, begun in 1775 and adopted under the new federal government by Washington, of issuing fast and thanksgiving day proclamations. In this proclamation, issued at a time when the nation appeared to be on the brink of a war with France, Adams urged the citizens to "acknowledge before God the manifold sins and transgressions with which we are justly chargeable as individuals and as a nation; beseeching him at the same time, of His infinite grace, through the Redeemer of the World, freely to remit all our offences, and to incline us, by His Holy Spirit, to that sincere repentance and reformation which may afford us reason to hope for his inestimable favor and heavenly benediction."
Fast Day Proclamation, March 23, 1798.

Original document at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/vc006493.jpg

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[TheHeffernan]

You won't, because this country was founded as a country and not a religion.

 

[EeAeP]

I can't even begin to tell you the things wrong with gage's excuse.

 

[HTacianas]

It says plainly in the US Constitution what year it was signed. In the year of our Lord.

 

[homestarr2]

thats because its not a christian nation. The men who drafted those were careful to allow for all religions and to not endorse a single religion. Most of the men responsible for americas inception expressed contempt for christianity and it wasnt until the 1900's that christianity became a national phenomena as far as the US being a christian nation. "In God we Trust" wasnt added to anything until the 1950's(except for a few coins prior) and the pledge of allegiance has been reworked several times. My grandparents remember it before the added "under god" and they were born in 1932.

Please refer to this
http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/arg10c.htm
in reference to the "Year of our Lord" dating style

 

[kyle]

many religioms exist in th us many ameicans are christians but it not a christian nation like iran is a islamic nation. if it was we would have a preacher as president

 

[Gage]

Lets see....the national slogan is "In God We Trust", the pledge of allegiance says one nation under god, Bush senior said atheists don't deserve to be citizens. Is that enough?

edit- And also Christian churches are tax exempt.

 

[MSB]

It is not a Christian country. It was a country founded by majority Christians. There is a difference.

Read the treaty of Tripoli, written shortly after the constitution, it clearly states America is not a religious nation.



For the ignorant: non-Christian churches are also tax exempt. Non-Christian religions are recognized by the IRS and the Army Chaplain's handbook: Judaism, Wicca, Hinduism, etc...