Not very bright

[melchar]

55% of those polled believed the US constitution stated that the US was founded as a Christian nation. Just kind of sad [just as a FYI there is no mention of God in the Constitution].

On a positive note, I would've thought that it was closer to 80% would would have answered that question wrong - so people are less dumb than they could be. ^_^

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[pbsjones.livejournal.com]

Stolen from the 'net (where, if it's there, it must be so!) Lots of facts can be found at: http://freethought.mbdojo.com
Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books. They spoke often of God, (Nature's God or the God of Nature), but this was not the God of the bible. They did not deny that there was a person called Jesus, and praised him for his benevolent teachings, but they flatly denied his divinity. Some people speculate that if Charles Darwin had lived a century earlier, the Founding Fathers would have had a basis for accepting naturalistic origins of life, and they would have been atheists. Most of them were stoutly opposed to the bible, and the teachings of Christianity in particular.

Yes, there were Christian men among the Founders. Just as Congress removed Thomas Jefferson's words that condemned the practice of slavery in the colonies, they also altered his wording regarding equal rights. His original wording is here in parentheses: "All men are created equal (and independent. From that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable.)" Congress changed that phrase, increasing its religious overtones: "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." But we are not governed by the Declaration of Independence-- it is a historical document, not a constitutional one.