One Nation Under God

What role did religion, specifically Christianity, play in America's foundation? This video explores the opinions of some of the most influential politicians, scholars, and thinkers in U.S. history.

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News & Politics

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• patriotic
• God
• Bible
• founding
• father
• Christian
• constitution
• freedom
• religion
• original
• intent

[thjefferson1776]

VERY nicely edited video. I love the way its put together. However, you said in the description that this video is about the "foundation" of America yet you quoted Moore, Coolidge, Lincoln, and Reagan who are not founders. Further, the true founders you did quote did not mention Christ or Christianity in those quotes.

[interviewwithgodcom]

The rest of my description reads:

"This video explores the opinions of some of the most influential politicians, scholars, and thinkers in U.S. history."

[macman13]

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

Thomas Jefferson

[interviewwithgodcom]

You are either a fool or a fraud, macman13. Simply go to the official monticello(dot)org web site and type in "Jesus" in the search box. There you can read Jefferson's views on Jesus Christ in his own words. In a letter written from Monticello Jefferson praised quote, "the innocence of Jesus' character the purity and sublimity of his moral precepts, the eloquence of his inculcations, the beauty of the epilogs in which he conveys them that I so admire," end quote.

[cockTHEgun]

Jefferson admired Jesus as a man, not a supernatural being. Therefore Jefferson was not Christian. He removed the miracle stories using scissors. He cut out the the virgin birth, the resurrection and so on.

[ogirv101]

This is very true, I understand Europe becoming an Atheistic nation, but once America does I know that pigs can fly. America was founded on men looking from freedom, a country found on Christianity, a country that exalts the lord, One of the few countries that stays Christian when it is the strongest nation in the World:

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[Hesperell]

It is unavoidable, though, that he believed in an almighty God, and also in everyone's ability to think and express their beliefs without fear of a governmental or other authority forbidding them in the public place, as is expressed in his most famous quote, aside from the Declaration of Independence: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Furthermore, his admiration of Jesus made him a Christian, as in, a follower of Christ.

[Hesperell]

It is impossible to disprove something omnipotent. Heck, as far as we know, the evidence against God (of which there is none) could have been put there by God Himself, to test our faith, as in the faith of universal justice, the concept upon which we base other moral standards. Honestly, many people need a good reason to do things that are not just for their own self-interest. I'm not actually claiming that He specifically did that, but that there is no "proof" because He could have done so.

[carolineislands]

Everyone knows this is the most imporant election in the history of the USA, but not all understand why. Its because this election will decide whether we will remain a nation under the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or whether we will turn our backs on the God - in other words it will decide whether America will stand with God, or fall. We who know and follow God can only pray that our nation returns to Him, and if they don't, that He remembers us as He did Lot during the destruction of Sodom.

[quintessential37]

"Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?" Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner on the Ten Commandments ruling, June 27, 2005

[quintessential37]

James Madison principle author of the constitution 'An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.' [in a letter to Livingston, 1822]

[Ajntb2Sli]

NO scientist has ever disproved the existence of God. This is a lie. if anything, more scientists are proving the theory of Intelligent Design as a fact.

[mungbeanman]

That's all very well and good but surely American scientists, whom are among the best in the world, have pretty much disproved the existence of a 'god'. So where does that leave us all?