Why Fundamentalism is bad for American democracy

[Strathos]

They believed in God and in the morality of the Bible. Basically, Christianity without church. They all had Masonic philosophies. Trying to turn them into being practical atheists or deists is just a made up falsehood by atheists today in trying to revision America, none of which was recognized as such anytime before.

If you would have asked any of them when the world began, they would have said 4004 BC. Deal with it.

If you asked the most educated people around in the 14th century whether the earth revolved around the sun or vice-versa, they would say the latter...

 

[Armoured]

Not the denomination of that, but they had the same principles as far as I've known. When I say that this country was based on Judeo-Christian principles, perahps a look at the constitution would work. It has so many allusions and inspirations from the Bible.

Like freedom of religion, obviously.

 

[Crowns&Laurels]

If you asked the most educated people around in the 14th century whether the earth revolved around the sun or vice-versa, they would say the latter...

The point is that they derived their worldview from archaic Christian beliefs.

 

[lasthero]

If you would have asked any of them when the world began, they would have said 4004 BC. Deal with it.

Not necessarily. Even back then, it was starting to become apparent that the Earth wasn't anywhere near that young.

 

[Strathos]

Not necessarily. Even back then, it was starting to become apparent that the Earth wasn't anywhere near that young.

Didn't some scientists in the centuries before Darwin determine that the earth had to be at least millions of years old due to the heat of the core or something?

 

[lasthero]

Didn't some scientists in the centuries before Darwin determine that the earth had to be at least millions of years old due to the heat of the core or something?

Lord Kelvin did that a few years after Origins, but it's important to note that Kelvin didn't agree with Darwin's conclusions and was an ardent believer in the Bible. But based on his findings, he concluded the Earth had to be at least in the order of millions of years old, and this was LONG before radiometric dating was a thing.

Geology was also a big thing in the 17th century, and stratigraphy was starting to give people some inkling that the Earth was quite old.

C&L also seems to make the assumption that the Ussher chronology was widely accepted by all Christians, and that the founding fathers would therefore have subscribed to it. That's not necessarily true. Contrary to what a lot of creationists seem to think, not everyone took the Bible literally before Darwin came along.

 

[twob4me]

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