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How much do you think the Bible influenced the Constitution? A lot Some Not much Not at all 55% 25% 12% 8% 2449 votes since 9/23 6 months remaining Created by: MichaelBN

 

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	Author: Sekhmet	Posted: 7 months 24 days ago
	Author's vote: A lot	Rate comment    2   7

It's true!

   

	Author: RickAdams	Posted: 11 months 15 days ago
	Author's vote: Not at all	Rate comment    6   2

Our founding forefathers may have believed in god, but that does not mean that they necessarily subscribed to the bible.

Remember, this country was founded by those who fled England because of religious persecution, which was based upon the bible. They did not want that to happen here, so they were quite clear that this country was not founded upon christianity.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison all wrote letters that were unequivocal in describing their intentions when this country was founded -- that it was not founded upon christianity. Thus, how could the bible have influenced the Constitution?

   

	Author: Sekhmet	Posted: 7 months 24 days ago
	Author's vote: A lot	Rate comment    2   7

I would expect someone of your ilk to come up with a moronic twisted statement like this. Too bad for you...

   

	Author: franklyspeaking	Posted: 24 days 10 hours ago
	Author's vote: Some	Rate comment    0   1

Thanks for once again displaying your incredible depth of stupidity and lack of any history. A world class moron!

   

	Author: Infinity	Posted: 11 months 29 days ago
	Author's vote: Not at all	Rate comment    7   2

We hold these truths to be (-self evident-)... sorry Jesus, freedom is universal. Thanks for encouraging it though!

   

	Author: IonaFawks101	Posted: 16 months 18 hours ago
	Author's vote: A lot	Rate comment    3   7

Well duh! Our constitution was founded on the teachings of the bible. Why do you think that the president and in court, you swear on the Bible? Why do you that Bill Clinton was impeached? hello!

   

	Author: franklyspeaking	Posted: 24 days 10 hours ago
	Author's vote: Some	Rate comment    0   1

Not true.

   

	Author: Falcon1	Posted: 16 months 14 days ago
	Author's vote: Not much	Rate comment    9   4

Where in the Constitution is Jesus mentioned? The garden of Eden? Or the Koran, the Torah, or the Path? Where in the Constitution does it say that embryos have rights? Where in the Constitution are the 10 Commandments mentioned? To be sure the Framers had religious influences but what is remarkable about the document is precisely how nonsectarian it is, and how deistic many of the Framers were in their personal lives. It's beauty is its secularism.

   

	Author: phantiasmic	Posted: 16 months 14 days ago
	Author's vote: Some	Rate comment    2   3

It would have influence either directly or indirectly because it is a written work that has been around a long long time.

Though the founding fathers were not all christians, it still would have had influence.

   

	Author: hillbilly	Posted: 16 months 15 days ago
	Author's vote: A lot	Rate comment    5   5

wow. that's a biggie. I believe that the writers of the constitution were devout men, and men of great faith. But, they were just men, with all the failings and temptations that face us all, in our lives.

   

	Author: epiphanymia	Posted: 16 months 15 days ago
	Author's vote: Not much	Rate comment    6   3

Franklin was agnostic if not an athiest, as were many others. They followed the tenents that describe behavior necessary for living in society, but other than that, the writing of the Constitution had little influence from the Bible.

   

	Author: patrickestuart	Posted: 16 months 15 days ago
	Author's vote: A lot	Rate comment    4   4

A lot of indirect influence of course. Western society itself is half built on Christianity, which itself is built upon the Bible. The concept that of equality of *all* people is a very Christian idea; it gained traction in Western society quite likely due to the connection.

   

	Author: flounder	Posted: 16 months 15 days ago
	Author's vote: Some	Rate comment    0   8

It had to. How could wars have been justified, if gods not. They were believers ya know. For better or worse.

   

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