Do American Christians idolize their country? Do we worship the nation\u2019s founders more than our true Creator? Many in the United States look to the \u2018Christian nation\u2019 that once was, and decry our modern wandering ways. We long to return to the \u2018morals of our founders\u2019 two centuries ago. Some think that if we were only as pious as those who came before us, perhaps our country wouldn\u2019t be facing its current crises.\u00a0 <\/span> Do American Christians idolize their country? Do we worship the nation\u2019s founders more than our true Creator? Many in the United States look to the \u2018Christian nation\u2019 that once was, and decry our modern wandering ways. We long to return to the \u2018morals of our founders\u2019 two centuries ago. Some think that if we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/span>But it turns out that the founding fathers were not at all what we would co-opt them to be. Jesus is absent from almost all important documents of our founding. He\u2019s not in the Declaration of Independence, not in the Constitution, not in the Federalist Papers, nor the Articles of the Confederation. Moreover, the second president of the United States, John Adams, states in the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: \u201cThe Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion.\u201d While it\u2019s true that some founders believed in God, many were Deist and highly influenced by Enlightenment-era thought that espoused a powerful, but distant and uninvolved God (ie. no divine Son of God). <\/span>
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