Louisiana requires "In God We Trust"

[Iron_Merc]

I would attribute their ideas more to the political philosophies of ancient pagan Greece and Rome than to Christianity.

But is this an accurate representation? I think not. You are also forgetting the mayflower and other early Christian groups.
George Washington created Thanksgiving to the LIVING God, not a Thanksgiving where he thanks Zeus and Poseidon for an uneventful voyage across the sea.

You gotta understand, the left will make every attempt to remove God from the founding of the nation. It's my job to challenge that view!

 

[Iron_Merc]

We are NOT a nation of Christians any more than we are a nation of any other religion

You realize what you are saying is akin to making the statement that Billy Grahams children have no Christian heritage in their family.

And that Billy Graham himself was a deist and not a Christian. You know what I'm getting at? Right?

 

[vegas giants]

You realize what you are saying is akin to making the statement that Billy Grahams children have no Christian heritage in their family.

And that Billy Graham himself was a deist and not a Christian. You know what I'm getting at? Right?

Billy Graham does not run this country and we are not talking about his family. We are talking about our nation which has been secular since day one

 

[ataraxia]

RE: America’s pagan Greco-Roman heritage

But is this an accurate representation? I think not. You are also forgetting the mayflower and other early Christian groups.
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The system of the American Democratic Republic has its historical and cultural roots in such things as the Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic. Such political systems and philosophies were talked about by ancient thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca- all of whom the founding fathers studied in great depth. The European Enlightenment philosophers were also important- folks like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Adam Smith, Voltaire, etc... but recall that the European renaissance and enlightenment came only after Europe threw off the political and intellectual stranglehold of the church after a thousand years, and started to look back again on its pagan Greco-Roman heritage- the philosophers, artists, mathematicians and scientists. They didn’t happen because it became even MORE Christian than the dark ages.

If you doubt the Greco-Roman heritage in America’s political system, just visit DC sometime and take a look at the architecture of all the buildings there, from the whitehouse and congress to the Supreme Court, archives, and the Smithsonian museum buildings. You would think you are in Ancient Rome!

So no, I think my assessment was accurate.