Christian Forefather Of Our Country

Catherin starts off by telling an account of how on one of her more recent tours of Washington D.C she conducts, (showing tourist Christian landmarks and background in the capital) many in the group were in a kind of awe about what she was showing to them. It seemed like these new revelations had gone against everything these people had been previously taught or conceived to be the truth. Millard then states that because of this all too common thought-pattern among Americans citizens she is taking up writing this piece in hopes that readers will rediscover their deeply rooted Christian heritage in this country and throw out the falsehoods and stories they had been taught up to this point.

As for my opinion of these men, I must say N.M.H presents a much stronger argument than does Millard. N.M.H never said anything to give me reason to discredit their ideas on the matter and also used much more factual knowledge and less opinion based statements. And as this class progresses, this is how I am learning to wade through biases and skewed arguments- by taking the most factual and reliable accounts and going with them, because there is always more than one side of a story.

I have found though after reading both these pieces and viewing all the evidence that there is nothing solid enough here to make me believe our founding fathers were Christians by definition for their time. They were like our politicians today, saying one thing to please a certain group and saying another to sway another way at the same time. They almost tried to take a somewhat neutral stance. Daniel Boorstein I think sums things up best saying, “these men found in God what they most admired in men.” From what I’ve found the 110 Rules of Civility proved to be more ingrained in our forefathers lives than the Ten Commandments. These men revered the traits of professionalism and gentlemanly acts more that any other traits. The teachings in the Bible and the Commandments were all good “teachings” for the proper Gentleman of the time. And the proper Gentleman of course should not be without some form of religion or idea of a higher being. I will say though that these men were smart and intelligent men, obviously others felt the same because of the status that they eventually reached. Being intelligent, they seen some corruption so to speak in the Church of that time, or maybe stated better, things that didn’t conform to Christian teachings. I’m sure almost every student who has had a class in European History up until the 1500’s and even beyond can attest the simply ridiculous things the Roman Catholic Church did in the name of Christianity. So maybe it was Christians itself that turned some of these more intelligent men away from fully committing to being a Christian.

Now if Millard is to Zinn then Noll, Marsden, and Hatch are to Johsnson (N.M.H) right? Not really. We can all agree that Johnson wanted to cast

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