Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent, so they see the church as a place there for them to meet their needs and to express faith in a way that is meaningful for them.
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
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