We'll see what happens in 2025, of course.
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Over 250 years ago, when the country was founded, the founders knew better than to believe the hucksterism of religion.
It’s very frustrating that most people, even today, cannot get past the hucksterism of religion.
No, the founders were mostly ~~Christians~~ religious too. They just knew better than to trust ~~Christian~~ dogmatic spats not to endanger the stability of their infant country.
Edit to correct my mistake about them being Christian and to clarify: I'm not claiming the US is Christian in origin. It explicitly isn't, but not because the founding fathers "didn't believe". Deism is still the believe in some supernatural force, even if it presents itself as a more rational form, and not all of them even were deists. They just believed it would be better to separate their individual religious convictions from the mutual political ambition.
Why is this being downvoted? It's mostly true. Perhaps it understates the reasoning, but it's largely accurate.
Not even a little bit. This is being downvoted for being bullshit. Bullshit, which you apparently believe, too, you know because of how effective the people who lie about this are at lying.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-founding-fathers-religious-wisdom/
That's not what I said though. I said they were Christian, which your link suggests would be an error, but more on the order of a misunderstanding than bullshit. But I didn't say it was a Christian nation, nor do I think so. I'm aware they intentionally separated church and state, I'm just saying it wasn't some enlightenend act of atheistic disdain for religion. They weren't atheists. They just weren't theocrats either.
I replied to your other post conclusively showing that you are not correct. You have more reading to do on this.
I’m sorry you insist on ignoring the fact. Therefore, I’m disregarding everything you ever will say.
I literally quoted and put in bold language that proves you are wrong, you absolute donkey.