The USA was founded upon Christianity.

I am referring to other Commandments that while not explicitly stated in the Constitution there are implications from the 10 commandments. What commandments? The commandments "Thou shalt not steal, murder etc. " then why do secular governments also have those basic laws? Furthermore, let me explain why the law of the US cannot be based off of the Bible.1. The Bible permits requiers stoning and burning. There are many cases where, in the Bible, a certain sin is punished by either burning the person or stoning. Those are two of the most horrific deaths imaginable. The Bill of Rights CLEARLY states that there should be no cruel and unusual punishment.2. Freedom of ReligionThe Bible states that we should kill those that are worship other gods (i. e. NOT Christians) I have read the Bible and am pretty sure I know which verses you have in mind. You are right it would be a whole different debate. So for the sake of keeping this debate from going in too many directions, I will not address this further. Case closed for this part. So even though many of the Founders had funny views of what Christianity actually was and probably couldn't truly be called Christians, it is clear that they thought that it was important an so at least in public supported Christian ideas. I have proved through the use of the bill of rights and some of the basic laws we have that it could not be based entierly off of the Bible as Christians claim. ConclusionThe resolution to this debate was that the US government was NOT founded entirely off of the Bible, as Christians claim. I have proved that through the use of how the US bill of rights contradict the Bible. While religion may have been important, it was certainly NOT everything. I am an Atheist, but I read the Bible (especially Proverbs and some of the wisdoms) as it does have some good, but mostly bad, moral guides. Final quotes In regard to the subject of your inquiry, truth requires me to say that Gen. Washington never received the communion in the churches of which I am the parochial minister. Mrs. Washington was an habitual communicant. .. . I have been written to by many on that point, and have been obliged to answer them as I now do you (Remsberg, p. 104). "For we know that the common law is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement in England, and altered from time to time by proper legislative authority from that time to the date of Magna Charta, which terminates the period of the common law. . . This settlement took place about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century; the conversion of the first christian king of the Heptarchy having taken place about the year 598, and that of the last about 686. Here then, was a space of two hundred years, during which the common law was in existence, and Christianity no part of it. " ". . . if any one chooses to build a doctrine on any law of that period, supposed to have been lost, it is incumbent on him to prove it to have existed, and what were its contents. These were so far alterations of the common law, and became themselves a part of it. But none of these adopt Christianity as a part of the common law. If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians, and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are all able to find among them no such act of adoption, we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. "James Madison;"Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? " -letter to Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson;"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. " - "Notes on Virginia" Ben Franklin;"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works . .. I mean real good works . .. not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing . .. or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity. " - Works, Vol. VII, p. 75 Thomas Paine;"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. " "Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. " -Thomas Jefferson, in his private journal, Feb. 1800 "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. " - to Baron von Humboldt, 1813"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man. But compare with these the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin. 1. That there are three Gods. 2. That good works, or the love of our neighbor, is nothing. 3. That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit the faith. 4. That reason in religion is of unlawful use. 5. That God, from the beginning, elected certain individuals to be saved, and certain others to be damned; and that no crimes of the former can damn them; no virtues of the latter save. " - to Benjamin Waterhouse, Jun. 26, 1822 . . http://freethought.mbdojo.com...