Amazingly, 94% of all the quotes of the Founders who wrote our founding documents had their origin in the Bible, which shows the importance of God's word in their lives and of this nation's founding.
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Yeah, I know Jefferson in particular was always taking things straight from the Bible.
Literally. He cut out parts of the Bible he didn't agree with. There wasn't much left.
Then you must have somehow missed Thomas Jefferson. You know, the same man who said, "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shown on man."
Given some of his other quotes, Jefferson may have even been an atheist. At the very least, even though he was raised christian, by his adulthood he had become a member of the 'I personally don't give a shit other than to say christianity is ridiculous' sect. Church of a silent (for fear of violence) many in those days.
You must have read the wrong quotes, or just a small sample of their quotes, or something. 94 percent of the ones I have read (agreeably not that many) are more about how to keep religion out of government, how to create a stable and just country, how to avoid all the problems they could see in the Old Countries in Europe (with their mixture of church and state, among other things).
Some of the founders were deists, one or two even atheists. think about the Bible...
...which shows the importance of God's word in their lives and of this nation's founding.
Or it doesn't. Because, you know, they didn't include any specific reference to God, Jesus, Christianity or such in the US Constitution.
@Phillip-George(c)2013 - just passing
People don't want the Constitution based on the Bible, so why on green earth do you think they want it based on the Koran?
Amazingly, 94% of all the quotes of Os Hillman on the net have their origin in batshit stupidity, which shows the idiocy of his thoughts and beliefs.
See, I can pull statistics out of thin air too.
This might just be a load of shit, but it might also be a misleading phrasing (and subsequent erroneous conclusion) for something like the following: "If we look at all the occasions on which the Founders included direct quotations in their speeches or writings, 94% of those direct quotations are quotations from the Bible." Which doesn't actually indicate intense religiosity - the Bible is a rich source of metaphor and conceptual shorthand, even if you have no great respect for the work as a whole.
Of course this would be giving Os too much credit for doing research, but, the 94% would depend on who one considers a founder. Much of what Cotton Mather said was Bible related, not so much of Tom Paine.
Most of the Founding fathers were deists.
God is not mentioned in the Constitution.
"Under God." wasn't originally in the Pledge.
"In god we trust." Wasn't always printed on money.
A lie in the name of god is still a lie.
No! No no no no Nonononono!
For crying out loud, this is not rocket science, go and read what they wrote rather than spew bullshit!
ChakatBlackstar
In that case, wouldn't 100% of the statisticians love their job?
E.g:
Providing you count 'the,' 'and,' 'but,' 'good,' and 'morning' as quotes from the Bible.
Amazingly, 94% of all the quotes of the Founders who wrote our founding documents had their origin in the Bible
Yeah, they had "the" and "and" in them, same as the Bible.
Honestly, I wouldn't care if they did quote from the Koran as long as it was just general wisdom, and the same goes with any other religious text. Honestly, I would prefer that if there was any religious text quoting it was a combination of OT/Torah and Greek myths, but a good mix with some Vedic stuff and Neo-Pagan and atheist and all other religious wisdom too might be better at making the point even if it's not as pretty for me to read. However, I think we should keep things as they are in terms of documents and work on real problems, like useless government spending, the national debt, the fact that politicians aren't doing much and people are just watching entertainment news instead of taking a role in government, the unwinnable and indefinitely long expenditure of lives in the Middle East, gun/bomb/general lunatics, brainwashed extremist Republicans, social welfare, living conditions in certain areas, obesity and eating disorders, distracted or drunk drivers, my parents, misogyny and other discrimination, excessive commercialism and superficiality, the fact that money in our country is not based on anything substantial but only declining faith in the government, etc. Most of the things I want done aren't leftist or rightist, but just human. What makes someone like me who genuinely wants a bit of socialism and a real conservative or even a more moderate lowercase-l libertarian different are very few. It's only stupid tribalism that divides most people, in other words the devil is in the details.
Os Hillman's house burned down one day. It was later determined the fire started, mysteriously, in his chest-of-drawers...where he kept the PANTS.
Also, what kind of sausage-head names their kid "Os"?
How about "Ook", "Goom", "Zop", "Flurp", "Ork" or "Zug"?
What they mean is..
94% of all the quotes of the founding fathers on lists I've seen like "biblical quotes by our founding fathers" reference the bible.
The subtext is that either the other 6% are such a stretch that they're unrecognizable as biblical even to this fundy,
Maybe both, along with their massive confirmation bias.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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