My primary sources are the words of the Founders. Surely you read the quotes and sources I gave? None of that was opinion from Barton. All of it was primary sourcing from the Founders.
Hmm I sense evasion.
BTW, none of the quotes you gave supported your "Christian nation assertions". They were just random quotes by Founders where "god" was mentioned in a general sense - which was the cultural norm for the time, and not remarkable at all. My quotes on the other hand would have been considered radically atheistic for that era:
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Reposting so she can't dodge the truth:
These (and there are hundreds more). Keep quoting your Christian revisionists - the facts will continue to annhilate them every time
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
"Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America." -
Common Sense, January 10, 1776
-Thomas Paine
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man: Being An Answer To Mr. Burke's Attack On The French Revolution, Part the First, Conclusion
To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.
-- Thomas Paine, The Crisis
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
His statement is false, as the above quotes (among many others) prove. Many of the founders were not Christians - they were diests or atheists, and even those who claimed to be Christian considered Christian fundamentalism to be evil, and founded this country on the principles of the enightenment and the Age of Reason.
Done. You're welcome.
I'm sorry if our Founders and the values that they founded this great country on offend you and your fellow America-hating Christian revistionists. If you hate this country and it's values, you're free to move to Saudi Arabia or some nation that better reflects your "values".
Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
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Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
Rape in the Bible
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Victory. B)