Do the religious hate athiests in America?

[Pens1566]

The country was founded as a Christian nation. The original push was based on Christianity as that was the Vast majority in the nation at that time. But God is not locked into only Christianity. I did not lie.

Stopped reading right here after I realized you failed US History.

 

[sandorski]

The country was founded as a Christian nation.

About as False as false can be.

 

[IronWing]

Just remember, Satan loves you just as much.

More really, but then again nobody stole his apple.

 

[pcgeek11]

Stopped reading right here after I realized you failed US History.

Every one knows that the VAST Majority of the Settlers were of the Christian Faith. Don't act stupid.

About as False as false can be.

Canadian, Pst

 

[sandorski]

Every one knows that the VAST Majority of the Settlers were of the Christian Faith. Don't act stupid.



Canadian, Pst

Yet correct.

 

[pcgeek11]

Yet correct.

Keep thinking that.

 

[sandorski]

Keep thinking that.

Read what your Founding Fathers said on the subject. Not someones synopsis of it, but what they said themselves.

This idea that the US was founded as a Christian Nation is so far off base it is obscene. The Founding Fathers purposely avoided that very thing.

 

[sportage]

I doubt the religious, the so called believers, "hate" atheist.
No doubt religious feel the atheist are salvageable and would welcome the atheist into their church.
UNLIKE with addressing gays, where the religious feel an never ending obligation to demonstrate their hate, with no remorse what so ever, and my #1 proof what they possess in their heart against gays is in fact pure bigotry.

Name one single time when laws have been proposed against the atheist in society.
Or to deny atheist the right to marry because the atheist lifestyle rubs against the teaching of religion.
Where as with the gay community the religious constantly and most hatefully attack, as well as physical attack, as well as proposing laws against.

No where, at no time have atheist been so attacked as violently or aggressively by those that would claim religion, as have the gays. And unlike atheist who are welcome into the church, gays are not welcome. Not unless they first repent their lifestyle as sin and promise never to follow that lifestyle again. And even then, most likely still not welcome.

Obviously, the atheist have never been so hated nears to such an extreme.
Have never witnessed laws drawn up against, or to attack, or to harm the atheist community.
Never has one single senator nor a single US president stood up in public to degrade the atheist community as unAmerican, ill moral, evil, as we have seen both with US senators and US presidents attacking the gay community.

So, to answer the question, no.
The religious do not hate atheist.
They retain hope thru salvation an atheist will be saved.
And that is where the difference becomes clear, and the bigotry against gays so blatantly exposed.
Religious person proposing laws and speaking hate against gays are exposing bigotry, regardless of how they might try to paint or twist their true objective.
But seldom will they feel any need to hide anything when it comes to full all out gay bashing.
Atheist will never experience anything close to that.
Not from those religious muckety mucks of today.
And with THAT are the bigots exposed.
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[ch33zw1z]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#United_States

 

[Atreus21]

Read what your Founding Fathers said on the subject. Not someones synopsis of it, but what they said themselves.

This idea that the US was founded as a Christian Nation is so far off base it is obscene. The Founding Fathers purposely avoided that very thing.

There are lots and lots of quotes from them to support your view as well as ours.

They purposely avoided a theocracy. They weren't purposely secular.

 

[fskimospy]

There are lots and lots of quotes from them to support your view as well as ours.

They purposely avoided a theocracy. They weren't purposely secular.

You realize that the Treaty of Tripoli, signed at a ceremony under George Washington's administration, ratified by a senate that included numerous founding fathers including Thomas Jefferson, and eventually signed into law by John Adams, explicitly states that the US was not founded as a Christian nation, right?

That to me is pretty powerful evidence that this country was not founded with that intent.

 

[Pens1566]

Every one knows that the VAST Majority of the Settlers were of the Christian Faith. Don't act stupid.

Far different than the country being founded as a christian nation.

Canadian, Pst

Which makes it even funnier that he understands the founding of the US more than you do.

 

[sandorski]

There are lots and lots of quotes from them to support your view as well as ours.

They purposely avoided a theocracy. They weren't purposely secular.

What exactly do you think "Secular" means?

 

[alzan]

Yes, It could mean Allah. You are over simplifying the term God.

Allah (English pronunciation: /ˈælə/ or /ˈɑːlə/; Arabic: الله‎ Allāh, IPA: [ʔalˤˈlˤɑːh] ( listen)) is the Arabic word for God (literally 'the God', as the initial "Al-" is the definite article).

God is NOT tied to One religion.

<snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_we_trust

Do you really think that when the Reverend M. R. Watkinson wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury about recognizing g-d with some phrasing on our currency that he was talking about something other than the Christian deity?

If so I have some lakefront property in New Mexico for sale.

 

[piasabird]

Many people came to the USA so that they could practice their religion, and escape the oppression and the tyranny of the British and other countries. For instance the most quoted book was Exodus Chapter 20 from the Bible. So you cant exactly say that religion did not play an integral part in the founding of this country. Religion was part of almost every culture that immigrated to the continent of North America and South America. Whether all the founding fathers were exactly religious is another story.

I will make an example.

Benjamin Franklin in his early years made trips to France where he was engaged in a lot of drinking and chasing women. However, as he grew older he played a key role in America and helped to do things like organizing trades and developing a stronger society. However, nothing indicates he was religious. In fact he was intelligent and invented the Lightning rod.

Did religion play a part in our countries beginnings? Yes it did. However, society as a whole was a mix of different religions which were mostly Christian. Even though there were many religions and it was much like it is today. A lot people were driven here for land and freedom and greed. George Washington was a religious man but he still had a plantation.

 

[sandorski]

Many people came to the USA so that they could practice their religion, and escape the oppression and the tyranny of the British and other countries. For instance the most quoted book was Exodus Chapter 20 from the Bible. So you cant exactly say that religion did not play an integral part in the founding of this country. Religion was part of almost every culture that immigrated to the continent of North America and South America. Whether all the founding fathers were exactly religious is another story.

I will make an example.

Benjamin Franklin in his early years made trips to France where he was engaged in a lot of drinking and chasing women. However, as he grew older he played a key role in America and helped to do things like organizing trades and developing a stronger society. However, nothing indicates he was religious. In fact he was intelligent and invented the Lightning rod.

Did religion play a part in our countries beginnings? Yes it did. However, society as a whole was a mix of different religions which were mostly Christian. Even though there were many religions and it was much like it is today. A lot people were driven here for land and freedom and greed. George Washington was a religious man but he still had a plantation.

No one denies the Religion played a large role in bringing people to the US or that it was very influential. However, the Founding Fathers purposely avoided integrating Religion into the Institutions that governed the newly formed United States of America. Not only had they witnessed the European problems of Government/Religious integration, the same problems had reared its' ugly head in the American Colonies as well on occasion. When some of the newly formed States began to adopt Official Religion, the FF stepped in and intervened to prevent it.

They established a Secular Government for the US. Not to destroy Religion, but to ensure that Americans Individual Right to Freely Believe was ensured. The moment you begin to integrate Religion into Government is the moment you begin to violate someone else's Freedom. Keeping Government Secular is the only way to ensure Freedom of Religion.