disagree, but then again i could be wrong. time will tell for shure i think +5

It doesn't matter what we think does it? You'll deny it to your dying breath. But as Thomas paine said, Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. .Thomas Paine-in The Age of Reason He WAS one of the US's founders.

I find your question and your attempt to muzzle the people who answer this question extremely offensive. The fact is, you don't want to hear why your statement is wrong and historically inaccurate. You just want to continue to live in denial and propagate the lie that this country was founded upon some form of religious belief. It wasn't. It was founded upon the ideals of the Enlightenment. One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded". However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is a lie. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment first, not men of Christianity. They were a mix of agnostics and deists who did not believe the bible was true. Above all, they were secularists. "We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power." -- Thomas Paine "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." -- Benjamin Franklin "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." -- John Adams "I have examined all the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature." -- Thomas Jefferson. "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England." -- Benjamin Franklin "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved-- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!" -- John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." -- Benjamin Franklin "The question before the human race is, whether the God of Nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?" -- John Adams "In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose." -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Horatio Spafford, March 17, 1814 "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia. "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." -- Thomas Paine "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession --Abraham Lincoln Supreme Court Justice David Davis: "He [Lincoln] had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term-- he had faith in laws, principles, causes and effects." The idea that we were meant to be a Christian theocracy is a rather new fabrication of the Religious Right since the Reagan period, one of their many falsehoods. It is dangerous, and very un-American. The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli makes it quite clear: Article 11 reads: "Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." This, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the letters and memoranda of our founding fathers and subsequent leadership, and a plethora of other documentation makes it all quite clear that this country was not founded upon Judeo-Christian heritage.

Disagree strongly. Our nation is based on freedom primarily.

Disagree. Some of the "Founding Fathers" were Christian, some were not. Some were deists, some were not. Above all, they were secularists.

It would help to know what you're referring to by "America"--North America, South America, the entirety of the Western Hemisphere (also known as "The Americas")? Just the United States? Honduras? lol Actually, in any of those cases, I'd still have to ultimately disagree, though I WOULD say that Judeo-Christian traditions and heritage have had an enormous impact on almost all areas of life in this part of the world (and in most others, by now), from law to ethics to literature to the arts to customs and language--the list goes on. But Friendo, taking "America" to mean "The United States," is correct-- the U.S. government was never a Christian one, nor did Christian beliefs form the basis for this form of government. All I can say in your defense is that some of the very earliest European settlers, especially in New England, formed their communities based on religious principles. The early Mass. Bay Colony was something akin to a theocracy (though not exactly, since it was, after all, a colony of GB) for quite some time.

Strongly disagree and I am giving you one of my very rare negative 4 ratings. Actually you are the first person that I have ever downrated this much.

Disagree. While it was undoubtedly derived from a Judaeo/Christian heritage, that does not imply belief in God. It is also derived strongly from a Graeco/Roman heritage, but that does not imply belief in Jupiter or Zeus. To accept the moral values derive from a culture does not require accepting all the theological beliefs (or superstitions, as some would have it) that came with that culture. We have not accepted banning of pork and shellfish, not the exiling of menstruating women, from the Jewish culture. We have refined and selected - and many of the Founding Fathers were amongst the leading refiners.

disagree.

Agree twice

Disagree. This is only a part of the story. 1) "The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy." Source and further information: http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2007/01/george-washingtons-letter-to-jews-of.html Further information: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/bigotry.html http://www.spiritual-politics.org/2009/04/judeo-christian.html 2) "Prominent champions of the term also identify it with the historic Pilgrim/Puritan Protestant tradition. The Jewish conservative columnist Dennis Prager, for example, writes: The concept of Judeo–Christian values does not rest on a claim that the two religions are identical. It promotes the concept there is a shared intersection of values based on the Hebrew Bible (“Old Testament”), brought into our culture by the founding generations of Biblically-oriented Protestants, that is fundamental to American history, cultural identity, and institutions. Liberal secularists reject the use of "Judeo–Christian" as a code-word for a particular kind of Christian America, with scant regard to modern Jewish, Catholic or more liberal Christian traditions. Usage has shifted again, according to Hartmann et al., since 2001 and the September 11 attacks, with the mainstream media using the term less, in order to characterize America as multicultural. The study finds the term now most likely to be used by liberals in connection with discussions of Muslim and Islamic inclusion in America, and renewed debate about the separation of church and state. It is used more than ever by conservative thinkers and journalists, who use it to discuss the Islamic threat to America, the dangers of multiculturalism, and moral decay in a materialist, secular age. Dennis Prager, author of popular books on Judaism and antisemitism, Nine Questions People ask about Judaism (with Joseph Telushkin) and Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism, and radio commentator, has published an on-going 19-part series explaining and promoting the concept of Judeo–Christian culture, running for three years from 2005-2008, reflecting the interest of this concept to his listeners. He believes the Judeo-[Christian] perspective is under assault by an amoral and materialistic culture that desperately needs its teachings." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judeo-Christian&diff=312136548&oldid=311725642 "This view about American history and culture has been questioned in recent decades by multiculturalists. In 2007, [...] Jon Butler, [...] published a book on religion in colonial America which, according to the reviews, explodes the myth that “the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion,” corrects the image of “colonial America as a type of grey, monolithic, uniformity”, is critical of the Puritans, and adulatory towards third-world contributions: “Butler explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual resilience of the Catawba Indians.” (In Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, Butler argues against a “Europeanized” or predominantly British identity of colonial America, and underlines contributions by Ibo, Ashanti, Yoruba, Catawba and Leni-Lenape." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian

Strongly disagree. All the historical evidence supports the country being founded on secular principals. The founders were extremely concerned about religious influence on government. Read Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams writings which make it rather clear.

Your right but you won't get any support on this site, it's pretty much liberal

I do not follow a religion, but I do follow God. The founders were against religion, and coming from the Church of England I can understand why. America was not founded on a religion, but it was founded on the fundamentals of God. Most people can not see the difference between religion and God, but religion is a man made institution. Following God is a life style. Since I follow God that means I try to make my thoughts, reactions and decisions based on what I think God would approve of. That is what I think the founders did in forming our government.

Disagree. Are you implying that we're more powerful than your fairy tale God?

If you had "just asked the question", then I would have "just answered: disagree". But since you started with such a fundamentally flawed assertion, then I'll also do the -5 thing for the "Q".

Addition to previous answer: Freedom to worship also includes freedom from worship if that is your choice. I don't want to shove your deity out. Don't attempt to cram your beliefs down my throat. Respect and tolerance is the key idea. As long as I'm not physically hurting you or yours you have no right to interfere with me.