Americans Have Abandoned God

Americans have abandoned God” is a very common refrain in some circles these days.

Well, we have government and churchianity as replacements.

But that is a very old refrain. It is probably excellent if there is one man in a thousand who has found God. You have to die and be born again. This is true of any path you take to get there. It is not unique to Christianity. But you can’t get political action out of that because God has a perfect religion for each of us. And everyone is different.

I wonder if our founders knew that and were thus very liberal (for the time or most any time) about religion. Tom Paine (or was it some one else?) was an atheist and Jefferson had his own thing going on,


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3 responses to “Americans Have Abandoned God”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    It’s hard to tell who in that period was an atheist, deist, agnostic or too bizarre for words, deviating too far from accepted, in most cases state religion was a crime. (Spinoza got off light when the Jewish community of Amsterdam just paid him off and told him to shut up) What you do see is various philosophers publishing “incontrovertible” proofs for the existence of god which are clearly based on specious logic, fallacies and special pleading. A thumbed nose at the religious hierarchies.

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    Man Mountain Molehill

    Of course there’s always the Holy Schmatta of Turin. Must me real, I mean how else does an image which conforms to 14th century artistic norms mysteriously appear on a piece of cloth which also dates to the 14th century? Has to be a miracle.

  3. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    If there is a God (sorry, I’m a died-in-the-wool agnostic), it seems to me more likely that God has abandoned America (probably with very good reason).