US Politics on Yik Yak | A lot of people who say “but da founding fathers were Christian, therefor dis a Christian country” don’t realize just because they called themselves it doesn’t mean they had the same theological views or weren’t highly secular in their politics

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A lot of people who say “but da founding fathers were Christian, therefor dis a Christian country” don’t realize just because they called themselves it doesn’t mean they had the same theological views or weren’t highly secular in their politics

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A good number of them were “Christian deists”, and Thomas Jefferson called himself Christian in the sense that he followed Christ’s teachings yet he didn’t believe in the supernatural aspects or that he was the son of god. He made his own bible by tearing out the supernatural parts and only left behind Christ’s sayings and certain narratives of him

Anonymous 3w

Weren’t the pilgrims puritan? Seeking religious freedom?

Anonymous

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A bit of an oversimplification, their lot was diverse, some of the colonies they established genuinely sought religious freedom, like Rhode Island, while others were restricted to their puritan ideals, that contingent of them wanted to seek out a place for them and only them to practice their religion. By the time of the Declaration of Independence, many of the puritan’s descendants were more secularized in their disposition, ironically because of their emphasis on education.