Originally Posted by
Tymon
You would be correct. I'm bad at this. I'm an agnostic that was (and lives in) an extremely belligerent Christian family. I spend a lot of time trying to rationalize their insanity in my head because I want to help them. It bleeds into my posts.
It's not under anything. I'm referencing the terrifying number of people who have said it is literally under god that come out of the woodwork whenever "Christian values" are attacked.
The logical fallacy is this:
Claims are made that the Constitution was drafted with Christian laws involved.
But if this is the case, the founding fathers are hypocrites. A massive number of the original settlers came to North America to get away from the Anglican Church being horrible snoots. This is regurgitated in American History all over the place. If this is the truth and we are at the time of the Constitution not even 150 years removed from these events, why on earth would you do exactly was done that made you want to leave England? England at the time was about as close to being a nation under god as you can get without being a theocracy.
There's a bunch of references to Christianity in the early documents, because like I said, most of those men were deists or from various Christian religions. It's not a far fetched assumption to make that they would include some wording here and there to appease the more extreme end of the time's political spectrum, among other reasons. Anything further than that is absurdly illogical.
But this shouldn't be a surprise. If you want to see illogical, let me know. I'll mail you one of the "Christian History" books that made me demand to be taken out of homeschooling and put in public schools.