Are USA Presidents Christians
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You like fiesty women huh Emcee? I call 'em as I see 'em!
You know me too well, I'm just and old softie most of the time. |
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---NVBarbara on 2/8/08 |
While the vast majority of U.S. Presidents have some sort of religious background, it would be judging for me to state that they were or were not Christians. Any religious criteria is really decided by the voters based on what the candidates says, and not some written criteria. |
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---wivv on 2/5/08 |
NVR:: WOW! I like you when stirred up you dont flinch But you are prime & all soft woman on the humour Blogs Blessings{:-)
PS I'll be your seconds. |
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---Emcee on 2/5/08 |
OK Frances, I'll bite...how does being murdered increase the likelihood that someone was a Christian? |
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---NVBarbara on 2/4/08 |
MikeM is correct, no test for faith. The 'beloved' father of our country, Washington was a pacticing Mason, Lyndon Johnson was a foul mouthed pig. Kennedy was a RC which would disqualify as Christian to some. Beyond that he was a slimy womanizer hooked on pain pills-Camalot indeed! Don't EVEN get me started on Clinton's morals!
Check the Net for the athiestic, diest, and other schools of thought some presidents held. |
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---NVBarbara on 2/4/08 |
They may use Christianity but they are certainly not all Christian. Lincoln was assassinated, I think that increases the likelihood he was a Christian. Membership of Skull and Bones disqualifies the Bush dynasty from being counted Christian. Clinton approves of abortion, like both the top presidential candidates on the mass media. |
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---frances on 1/25/08 |
This is a settled question. NO religious criteria for presidents or anyone else in public office! The constitution "says no religious test shall be required for public office" No test means no test. The 'establishment clause' of the first amendment also makes this clear. The US constitution is a secular document-thus
the goverment is secular, period. Nothing hazy about it. |
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---MikeM on 1/23/08 |
It would be hard to decide what religious criteria could be applied to a presidential candidate. Which religion would they have to be? And, how would you prove that they are really of that religion and not just a pretender. |
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---Susie on 1/23/08 |
Thanks to all who have replied thus far. I understand that there isn't, but in your opinions, should there be a religious criteria concerning who can run for president? |
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---AlwaysOn on 1/22/08 |
Most U.S. Presidents were Episcopalian accorindg to the show Who Wants To Be Millionair. This was one of the questions and Episcopalian was the answer. There is no religious criteria because this country doesnt "want" to mix Church and State. But now a days, religion plays a big part in elections since there are more and more Christians everyday who can influence a vote, i.e. Huckabee. |
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---Ghost on 1/22/08 |
** Jack...Answer me one question. How do you know that every president was a Christian? I figure we'll find out the truth about that on judgment day.**
So far as the historical evidence is concerned, every president has been some kind of confessing Christian, just not modern pop-evangelical.
The real question is who are you, Susie, to determine who is and who is not a Christian? |
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---Jack on 1/22/08 |
** Jack- I am distantly related to WJ Bryant. The whole trial was a joke to everyone but the fundamentalist. **
Et reliqua.
INHERIT THE WIND is great drama, but lousy history. |
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---Jack on 1/22/08 |
Bill: President Carter's first name is Jimmy, not Bill. He has been active as a Sunday School teacher in his Baptist church in Plains since he left office. He is a born again believer in Christ. |
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---Trish9863 on 1/18/08 |
Jack...Answer me one question. How do you know that every president was a Christian? I figure we'll find out the truth about that on judgment day. |
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---Susie on 1/18/08 |
The civil war was not fought primarily over nor did it end slavery. Lincoln ended slavery not because it was morally right but rather to punish the south for sucession. |
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---pg1 on 1/18/08 |
Jack- I am distantly related to WJ Bryant. The whole trial was a joke to everyone but the fundamentalist.
1.The 'Butler Act' most did not take serious.
2. Bryant in reality was a progresive.
3.It was mostly about revenue for the town, and the newspapers.
4. Through a joke, its social impact was trememdous. Fundamentalist learned that 'open debate' was something to avoid. They never forgot that lesson. |
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---MikeM on 1/18/08 |
**When I think of fundamentalism Sinclair Lewis novels come to mind, or the Scopes trial.**
Did you know the entire Scopes affair was a set-up by the town fathers and ACLU to deliberately flout the Tennessee law to put it to the test--and draw attention to Dayton?
Scopes wasn't even the biology teacher. He was the football coach who was willing to be the fall guy, merely reading a few sentences from Darwin.
BTW--approved texts for Tennessee at the time taught evolution. |
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---Jack on 1/18/08 |
almost all politicians claim to be christians. They wouldn't be elected if they didn't. But the Bible says you'll know them by their works and other characteristics. Even the devil believes in Jesus. So who knows - only God Knows the heart.
Many of the founding fathers were deists - even TJ spoke of Jesus and many supported Christianity but didn't want it forced on the populace. They had come from England after the religious wars |
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---Andrea on 1/18/08 |
Definetly all presidents were not Christian.Grant for one was a drunkard and cursed also.I think Lincoln was a great man and probably may have been Christian although the war wasn't christian it sure freed black people.I think there should be better ways than war to resolve diffirences but hey christans are still the minority and you have hotheads to deal with. |
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---shirley on 1/18/08 |
The term "pop-evangelicals, a decadent form of Protestantism" I place as todays fundamentalism. When I think of fundamentalism Sinclair Lewis novels come to mind, or the Scopes trial. Its popularity, the common denominator of protestantism.
As to presidents,there is no 'religious criteria' at all, the constitution is clear, 'no religious test' (oath) required for office, period. The first 5 presidents were Deist, freemasons, Unitarian, many more were masons. |
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---MikeM on 1/18/08 |
Bill Carter seemed credible, but I didn't know much about what he did and said. He seemed like he was very easy, not trying to push and put on an image, so he seemed possibly humble, which would be Christian.
But Abraham doing what he did to the South, in order to stop slavery...not how Jesus has taught us to handle a problem. And having soldiers kill noncombatants in Iraq does not sound even **secularly** pro-life to me. |
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---Bill_bila5659 on 1/18/08 |
They've all been Christians, yes--just not pop-evangelicals, a decadent form of Protestantism which is trying to set itself up as the norm of Christianity, except maybe Bush fils.
(Notice, I do not even dignify it by the name of "fundamentalism," itself an honorable term that has a specific meaning.) |
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---Jack on 1/18/08 |
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