Reply #93: Just human nature [View All]

[Bert]

I am fairly sure the Romans and Greeks deified thier founding fathers as well, both for the original republics and then on into the empire. As far as our founding fathers they had some good ideas and some of them were more noble than others. The fact that they managed to create a system of government that has survived to this day through the use of amendments is fairly extraordinary, I believe it is the oldest democracy on the earth, even older than France though they had a revolution that truly did create a new society, maybe that is why thier's died the first time to give birth to Naploeon and ours has stood. Despite the evil done by our people and our government there is always the hope that we live up to our quoted ideals of all people being equal and maybe even stop being an empire at some point.

The founding fathers shouldn't be deified however by any means and they made many mistakes, only some of which have been corrected. Like their idea of divided government that has given us dysfunctional governments through the senate and electoral college and division of legislature and executive as well as the then division of federal and state which is virtually gone.

Just realize that if we werent worshipping Jefferson and Lincoln and FDR in my case we would probably be told to worship someone else, maybe even a pope or religious leader. In my opinion also separation of church and state is the biggest contribution of the founding fathers, and one we are quickly forgetting in our desire to give supernatural attributes to the founding fathers and let the church's get their hands on tax dollars today.