Faith

March 5, 2009 by Lisa Krempasky  
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Faith is the foundation for all that is America. It is an essential principle for a democratic and free people. Democracy cannot flourish where people do not have self-restraint.

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  1. “Faith is the foundation for all that is America. It is an essential principle for a democratic and free people. Democracy cannot flourish where people do not have self-restraint.”

    There is nothing in the Constitution or by any of our founding fathers that says faith in a God is an American principle.

    Ben Franklin said: “In the endeavors of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the lack of it.”

    “The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.” – John Adams

    “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” – James Madison letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774

    “What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.” – Thomas Paine

    Those are our founding fathers. Not Ronald Reagan, not GW Bush or the rest of the neo-conservative fools like you Lisa. I’m sorry to be harsh, but I’m tired of you people elevating faith to some sort of great principle in American ideals. You’re making a virtue out of nothing.

    Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking, it is nothing to brag about, those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slave holders. Keeping mankind in bondage to fantasy and nonsense which has spawned and justified so much lunacy. Your “Faith” continues to cause wars, impede science and generally cause chaos. Yet you hide behind it like a kid behind her mother.

    God is an imaginary friend for grownups.

  2. Justin your arguments are quite faulty. The constitution and founders are riddled with faith and belief in God. It is easy to misquote people.

    Adams was not remotely talking about Christianity in general, but about particular tenants of Christiainity that he disagreed with.

    Madison was profoundly interested in securing religious liberty and freedom.

    Paine was strongly against a national church but made personal professions of faith.

    Benjamin Franklin can hardly be considered a historical proponent of a Godless America. Benjamin Franklin halted the Constitutional Convention of 1787 so that each member might take pause to pray over the decisions being made.

    And these are the most “secular” of the founders you could come up with. The vast majority were specifically moved by their faith to take the actions they took to create our great experiment.

  3. juanramos says:

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