"under God", should it be taken out?? Options

[starling]

The case is up before the Supreme Court. So what do you think??

[Mulder]

I think you are getting really confused. This country was founded on July 4, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the continental congress. The country also dramaticly changed and become defined in 1789 when the Constitution and Bill of Rights replaced the Articles of Confederation to actually unite the states. All of these documents, which comprise the founding of the United States of America, support freedom of religion as well as a church and state seperation. No mention of a Jesus Christ, or any other blatantly christian symbol, is present. The country was not founded for that specific purpose. The purpose we were founded is directly related to the unjust treatment under Britian and lack of representation which led to the American Revolutionary War.

i think he means colonized.

the country has existed long before it declared its independence.

the first "pilgrims" were separatists who were trying to escape from England, whose official religion at that time was the Church of England.

as England turned to Catholicism, Mary was killing many separatists. so more fled to America for religious freedom and tolerance.

America wasnt techically a country while under England's rule, but honestly, during the decades leading up to the Revolution, America was its own nation, regardless of the fact that they were an English territory.



wee. im done.

sorry... this is helping me with my history final.