Reply #74: I'm afraid he's more right than you are. [View All]

[Frodo]

"the nation was founded by people FLEEING christian nations."


Christian "nations" perhaps, but not christianity. They came here largely to PRACTICE christianity apart from states that did not agree with their denomination.


"it was a bunch of christians, but also deists and atheists and agnostics and jews, but more importantly:"

Christians, yes. Deists, yes (though they all make today's "christians" look like a bunch of pikers and would certainly NOT have a problem with "god" in the pledge),

But which "founding father" was atheist or Jewish? And please don't try and say Thomas Paine. He certainly was NOT. I'm not sure that any of them can even properly be called "agnostic".


We're certainly NOT founded as a "Christian Nation", but that doesn't change the fact that the founders would have no problem with a pledge in schools that included the word "god".

Remember that the first Bible printed in english here was printed BY the founding fathers FOR the public schools. I doubt seriously that men who did that would object to a pledge like what we have.