America Was Not Founded as a Christian Nation: End Times Prophecy Report

The Myth of America Founded as a Christian Nation

WAS AMERICA FOUNDED AS A ‘CHRISTIAN’ NATION?

Die Gartenlaube (1876) 445 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

During the presidential campaign of 1880, the Christian Union made the startling admission that, of the nineteen men who, up to that time, had held the office of President of the United States, not one, with the Possible exception of Washington, had ever been a member of a Christian church.

–Six Historic Americans: George Washington

If you hear something repeated over and over and over again, after awhile you might end up believing what you heard.

So it is with the old wives’ tale of “America was founded as a Christian country.”

We’ve heard this whopper over and over and over again.  It must be true, right?

Wrong.

If  is were true that the USA was founded as a Christian nation, it stands to reason that the name of Christ or Jesus must be in at least ONE of our founding documents, right?

Wrong.

A Christian nation that was founded without mentioning the name of Christ (the supposed object of our founding)?  How can this be?

Yes, the majority of the people in the colonies (and later, the USA) were Christians.  But practically none of the country’s leaders were followers of Jesus.  In spite of their public pronouncements to the contrary, their private lives and writings declared otherwise.

Americans have been taught that the politicians of 230+ years ago were somehow different from the breed of political animals that exist today.

Wrong again.

Like the politicians of today, the American founders talked of “god”–but never specified which one. Like politicians of modern America, they rarely used the name of Jesus–at least not in a complimentary way

And those same unbelieving leaders/founders steadily steered the country in the direction of their unbelief. Slowly, very slowly at first, they prodded and nudged: always slowly enough so as not to arouse the anger of the great masses of Americans who did believe.

By the mid-1900s, the groundwork of the previous 180-200 years was laid and made it possible for the American political class to take the USA into new depths of unbelief.  Especially after the federal government completely hijacked public education.  After the invention of the electronic mass media, the pagan-ization of America snowballed.

This has led to the United States of 2013: a country where there are small, surviving pockets of Biblical Christianity surrounded by unbelief, pagan beliefs, corruption in the churches and outright hostility to Christians–and it will continue to get worse.  The Bible assures Christians of that outcome.

But then, this nation was founded to ensure such an endgame.

When something has turned out for the better in America, the media and history books have always been quick to give the credit to the unbelieving American founders and leaders. The largely Christian population received no credit.

Why don’t those same sources assign blame to those same leaders, now that the wheels are rapidly coming off the American cart?  When times were good, generations were drilled that it was because of the ingenuity of man: our men, our founding fathers.

So, let’s start with a few founding fathers.  Media talking head, Glenn Beck, is continually going on about these men and “their sacred honor.”  Their honor may have been sacred–but it clearly was an honor not dedicated to Jesus Christ.

English: A Portrait of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thomas Jefferson – author of the Declaration of Independence

(from Jefferson on Christianity and Religion)

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

“Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820

“The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

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