Is Christianity the Religion of American?
Apr 12, 2019 15:42:54 #
Is Christianity the Religion of American? [VIDEO}
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.
Apr 12, 2019 16:00:17 #
[quote=bahmer]Is Christianity the Religion of American? [VIDEO}
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
Nope it isn't: Why don't you read the constitution. There is only one place about religion (and it doesn't mention Christianity), you have the freedom to practice it-not to force it down my throat.
If you want to keep that freedom, I highly recommend you demonstrate one case where anyone has stopped you from conducting your ability to worship. Otherwise there will be some new laws on the books: nuisance laws.
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
Nope it isn't: Why don't you read the constitution. There is only one place about religion (and it doesn't mention Christianity), you have the freedom to practice it-not to force it down my throat.
If you want to keep that freedom, I highly recommend you demonstrate one case where anyone has stopped you from conducting your ability to worship. Otherwise there will be some new laws on the books: nuisance laws.
Apr 12, 2019 16:08:42 #
Apr 12, 2019 16:12:46 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
[quote=bahmer]Is Christianity the Religion of American? [VIDEO}
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
We are Judeo-Christian Nation.....But looks like its changing!!
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
We are Judeo-Christian Nation.....But looks like its changing!!
Apr 12, 2019 16:16:11 #
woodguru wrote:
Actually no religion is, atheists and agnostics outnumber christians.
As much as I would like to support that...that is not true....all though the gap is closing and if they keep whining it will a pleasure be able to close a few churches. They sure provide an interesting filter, makes it easier to figure out who your friends are.
Apr 12, 2019 16:16:34 #
proud republican wrote:
We are Judeo-Christian Nation.....But looks like its changing!!
Yea,,,,no.
Apr 12, 2019 16:42:45 #
Sew_What wrote:
Nope it isn't: Why don't you read the constitution. There is only one place about religion (and it doesn't mention Christianity), you have the freedom to practice it-not to force it down my throat.
If you want to keep that freedom, I highly recommend you demonstrate one case where anyone has stopped you from conducting your ability to worship. Otherwise there will be some new laws on the books: nuisance laws.
If you want to keep that freedom, I highly recommend you demonstrate one case where anyone has stopped you from conducting your ability to worship. Otherwise there will be some new laws on the books: nuisance laws.
Well, we certainly were not founded on the beliefs of Islam. Ours is a loving God.
Some of my ancestors came here as Huguenots seeking to worship without dictate from the Catholic Church. Many from England, Scotland and other countries, looking to worship God and Jesus Christ in their own way. But none looking to worship the god of Islam. Worship Muhammad or have your head removed!
Apr 12, 2019 16:44:03 #
woodguru wrote:
Actually no religion is, atheists and agnostics outnumber christians.
Don’t judge the masses by your own lack of belief.
Apr 13, 2019 07:04:58 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Well, we certainly were not founded on the beliefs of Islam. Ours is a loving God.
Some of my ancestors came here as Huguenots seeking to worship without dictate from the Catholic Church. Many from England, Scotland and other countries, looking to worship God and Jesus Christ in their own way. But none looking to worship the god of Islam. Worship Muhammad or have your head removed!
Some of my ancestors came here as Huguenots seeking to worship without dictate from the Catholic Church. Many from England, Scotland and other countries, looking to worship God and Jesus Christ in their own way. But none looking to worship the god of Islam. Worship Muhammad or have your head removed!
Oh, so we're not a Christian Nation, why not?
What we're not is: a Theocracy, Islam or otherwise.
Most Muslims would argue that Christians worship the same God as Muslims, why don't they worship the same God?
Why don't you pray about this, instead of whining about it.
Apr 13, 2019 07:40:12 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Don’t judge the masses by your own lack of belief.
..and yet the Christian masses invoke Christ in everything. Yea, no thanks. You can freely be a prisoner to Christ or wh**ever your wackjob beliefs require of you. Congratulations: you're a fanatic.
Apr 13, 2019 07:42:58 #
Sew_What wrote:
..and yet the Christian masses invoke Christ in everything. Yea, no thanks. You can freely be a prisoner to Christ or wh**ever your wackjob beliefs require of you. You're a fanatic.
Clang!
Apr 13, 2019 07:51:53 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Don’t judge the masses by your own lack of belief.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and p***e in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters, for either he will h**e the one and love the other, or he will be dev**ed to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world h**es you.
John 15:18-21
If the world h**es you, know that it has h**ed me before it h**ed you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world h**es you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
Romans 14:1-23
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Apr 13, 2019 07:59:45 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Don’t judge the masses by your own lack of belief.
Isn't it Funny Trump doesn't have this tattooed on his tiny little hands:
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Romans 13:1-7
Apr 13, 2019 19:17:35 #
[quote=bahmer]Is Christianity the Religion of American? [VIDEO}
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
There were different religious sects/denominations represented in the original colonies, that is true. But they were all a variation of Christian. There were no Buddhists, no form of Islam, etc. So, America was settled by Christians and established as a Christian nation, not all the same, but all some form of Chtistianity. As our nation grew, we began to add others of different religious beliefs, such as the Chinese, but they were always minorities and our government did not involve itself in any religions except to provide religious freedom to everyone. Until recent years, we never allowed any religion any treatment NOT granted to all. Of course, now the Muslims here demand special treatment be granted them because of their religion.
By Jake MacAulay - April 12, 2019
Last week, we discussed the first Muslim representative elected to the Pennsylvania legislature who demanded an apology from another member because they began their session with a prayer to Jesus Christ, calling it ‘highly offensive.’
I received a message from a reader, who I believe to be sincere, stating:
“The Founders NEVER intended to favor Christianity over any other religion… None of the founders were explicitly Christian except the couple who were ministers. These arguments that the founders favored Christianity are historically incorrect, d******e, and anti-American. Your intent is only to rile up fear for political purposes.”
Let’s take a look at what a majority of our Founders believed.
Trending: PHENOMENAL: AG Barr Drops Bombshell Before Congress Which Should Have Democrats Running Scared
George Mason, the ‘Father of the Bill of Rights,’ had suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:
“All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.”
The fact is there were numerous Christian denominations in the various colonies.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who was appointed by President James Madison, explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833:
“In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers … The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions.”
We have to remember that the States created and ratified this Federal Constitution, so the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, particularly regarding religion, did not override individual State Constitutions. The original 13 states all declared similar statements as Maryland, who declared:
“No other test … ought to be required, on admission to any office … than such oath of support and fidelity to this State … and a declaration of a belief in the CHRISTIAN religion.” (emphasis added)
Delaware stated:
“Every person … appointed to any office … shall … subscribe … ‘I … profess faith in GOD THE FATHER, and in JESUS CHRIST His only Son, and in the HOLY GHOST, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration.'” (emphasis added)
Pennsylvania was operating under its 1776 Constitution, signed by Ben Franklin, which stated:
“Each member, before he takes his seat, shall … subscribe … ‘I do believe in one GOD, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'”
In 1840, Justice Joseph Story wrote in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States:
“We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution) …
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
Written in many documents, here we have, not fear-based opinions and arguments, but your actual Christian history, Americans.
Schedule an event or learn more about your Constitution with Jake MacAulay and the Institute on the Constitution and receive your free gift.[/quote]
There were different religious sects/denominations represented in the original colonies, that is true. But they were all a variation of Christian. There were no Buddhists, no form of Islam, etc. So, America was settled by Christians and established as a Christian nation, not all the same, but all some form of Chtistianity. As our nation grew, we began to add others of different religious beliefs, such as the Chinese, but they were always minorities and our government did not involve itself in any religions except to provide religious freedom to everyone. Until recent years, we never allowed any religion any treatment NOT granted to all. Of course, now the Muslims here demand special treatment be granted them because of their religion.
Apr 14, 2019 06:35:50 #
maryjane wrote:
There were different religious sects/denominations... (show quote)
Muslims demand special treatment because Christians depend special treatment. And if they don't get the special treatment, they will sight the first amendment which states that there is no religious test for office.
If you are a representative at the federal level, then you are intelligent enough to have read the constitution of the United States,....not Delaware.
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