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Christians Need Evolution
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Macroevolution is true
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World Views In Collision
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1. ERVs 2. Transposons
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Why did they say that?
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Who Wrote The Bible?
Many Americans think and claim that the United States is a "Christian Nation" or at least founded on Christian theology. Evidence against this claim includes the fact that the simple term "God" is not found in any of the foundational documents which include the Declaration, the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights. The term "Creator" has a deist connotation and was not in the original draft. "Nature's God" also is deist in meaning; the writers could have used "God, Father, God Almighty, Heavenly Father, Jesus", or any number of specific theistic terms. They chose their deist terms with great purpose, to create a secular government not affiliated with any particular religion or faith.
In addition, "In God We Trust" was first placed on coins during the Civil War in 1863 and on paper money during the Cold War in 1956 when it was thought the patriotic thing to do. "Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance also only during the Cold War, in 1954. Our Founding Fathers would never have approved this change from the previous and original 1782 Act of Congress motto "From many, one" (E Pluribus Unum).
The Religious Test Clause bans any religious requirement for office or appointment. The Oath and Affirmation Clause requires all officers at the federal and state levels to take a vow of support of the Cosnstitution, not scripture or God and it permits one to swear a religious oath OR a secular pledge of affirmation and loyalty. The very first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights is freedom of religion and later the Supreme Court extended the principle to states, and then it was appropriately applied to all government offices; the separation of church and state is a cornerstone of our democracy - and a reason for our success as a country. Our Founding Fathers, whatever their personal beliefs, created a government that was to be secular and not founded on any particular religious belief system.
Is America a Christian nation? What Both Left and Right Get It Wrong
Is America a "Christian" Nation?
America is not a Christian Nation
The Government of the United States is not... founded on the Christian Religion
No, America is NOT a Christian Nation
This is NOT a Christian nation!
America is not a Christian Nation
Our Founding Fathers were not Christians
Why U.S. is not a Christian Nation
Is America A Christian Nation? (2011)
Understanding the "Christian Nation" Myth
Steven Green, Cardozo Law Review (2010)
First Penny 1792 had "Liberty Parent of Science & Industry" Link
Not a Christian Nation: The Religious were upset with the founders: Link
Jefferson and the lies of conservaties about him. Link
2nd President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson's report after meeting with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, Tripoli's envoy to London in 1786. >> Diplomatic Correspondance of the United States of America, Archile LINK
Letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816
1st President of the United States
"The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy".
American Officer in the Revolutionary War
Reason, the Only Oracle of Man, 1784, Bennington, Vt. ; Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, N.Y.C.
Ethan Allen to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825
American scientist, diplomat, writer
"The way to see by Faith, is to shut the eye of Reason."
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
“When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it’s a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”
~Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American poet, essayist, novelist
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) (1841-1935)