Did the founding fathers of the United States find guidance from Martin Luther's reformation?
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My answer would be yes due to the Fact that the founding fathers understood the value of human rights thus the "Declaration of Independence" was born. The reformation in reality was the reforming of the peoples mind and the understanding of what "SELF EVIDENT" meant. One Nation Under God, "indivisable" meant you could nt be seperated from the devine.. "In him we live, breath, move and have our existance, with liberty and Justice  for all...these liberties where granted by the supreme creator of the universe, and our founding fathers along with Martin Luther knew this, they preached it, practiced it, and most of all, LIVED IT....MAY GOD BLESS
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No. The founders were concerned about divided loyalty between their nation of origin and the US.
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Luther left behind a movement that quickly spread throughout the Western world. His doctrines, especially justification by faith and the final authority of the Bible, were adopted by other reformers and are shared by many Protestant denominations today. As the founder of the 16th - century Reformation, he is one of the major figures of Christianity and of Western civilization.
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The founding fathers were anarchists for their day....I guess. They were bucking the system in England. But now days....They get a bad rap because they are the voice of revolution and change! God bless em......we need more of them! Change is the only thing that is going to save our country!!!!!!!!!
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you are right. and i see another piece of misinformation cropping up as well.  our founding fathers were not christian.  one was an atheist and the others were all Diest (belief in the clockwork structure of the universe.  God made it all, wound it up, and lets it go.  God does not take a personal or vested interest in any part of his creation.).  So no knowledge of the Treaty of Tripoli or that there were NO Christian Founding Fathers of America.
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No, it wouldn't. It was based on: IN GOD WE TRUST. Too bad others have come along and took what our forefathers had in mind when writing our constitution and twisted it. Too bad there is barely any freedoms left in this country to enjoy without being lashed out at against by some group or another. I wonder what our Founding Fathers would think of our "progress" if they could see us now?
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I can help you just go to... \nhttp://www.mrburrell.com/atc_textbook/HMSS%20Files/Chapter%2013/Chapter%2013-Lesson%202.htm\n\nit will tell u lots about Martin Luther!
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The Founders knew that an educated people was key to maintaining a viable government supported by people who understood the countries roots.  Clearly that is Something which has diminished during the last 50 or so years.  \n\nUnderstanding the Constitution is not difficult, in truth it is a rather short document written in easy to understand English.  Its historical roots are in about 3,000 years of Common Law evolution.  While the Constitution does not bar recognizing the importance of religion in the lives of the people, it does bar the government from supporting “a” religion.  Religion is of the people and law is the government.\n\nTo the Founders, the soul of America is not in the government and not in religion rather it is in the individual freedoms and sovereignty of the people and is exemplified in the Constitution of the United States inclusive of the Constitutionally ratified Amendments.  This is meaningful to the degree that the people are educated to understand them.  In every school, every child should be taught the Constitution of the United States and those acts and documents which preceded and supported them.  This includes a number of documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, The Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers, the first thirteen Constitutions (of the original States) preceding the Constitution.  \n\nWith this minimal education of what our country is, people will come to understand what that foundation is and on their own will redevelop the “soul of the country.”
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No, America's foundation is not Christianity. It became influenced by Christianity, I don't know why since our forefathers were deists ...\n\nThe Treaty of Tripoli, approved by John Adams, states that "The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".
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George Washington said that we owe it to ourselves to elect people of like religious faith. That was the only check on our officials in public office. We have failed misserably at that.\nFew men of faith lead our government anymore.\nOne of our founding fathers said that they had given us a free country if we can keep it. However they also said that the country would be doomed if the electorate ever learned to vote money from the federal treasury into their own pockets.\nI think they have learned to do that, and are working even harder at trying to vote money out of the pockets of the rich into the pockets of the poor.
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Neither.\n\nThe genius of the founding fathers of the United States was not that they knew everything, but that they understood that they could not know everything. With that humble attitude, they included in the Constitution a feature which allows future generations to update the Constitution to fit the changing times.\n\nLook at all the amendments which have been added to the Constitution. Every amendment is a slight change to the Constitution to keep it updated with the times. \n\nThe 18th and 21st amendments are a perfect example. The 18th amendment was the prohibition of alcohol because people at that time thought that alcohol would destroy the country.\n\nWhen the people finally realized that the prohibition of alcohol gave rise to an even greater threat (gangsters like Al Capone), they decided to undo the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment. That's the Constitution changing with the times.
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No.  Our founding fathers declared that Church and State were separate and that ALL peoples and beliefs were equal in the eyes of the law.\n\nI'm constantly scared that we're on a slippery slope and those freedoms are being taken away by groups that believe that the US was founded for them.  It was not.
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John Adams and John Quincy Adams were Unitarians. So were about half of the founding fathers who came from Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Most of the ones from the middle and southern states were trinitarian Protestants of some sort.\n\nYou can see more on\nhttp://www.famousuus.com/\nClick on "American Politics" there.
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No, No and No.  Right now, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson are crowing in delight over the rift  the right has caused. They practically come out and say Bush's election was their victory.\n  Bush was advised very carefully on this sticky wicket and, again, as with gay marriage and immigration pulled off a diversionary tactic to divide us and take attention off the greater issues.  God guides him, so he says. We know he uses God.  And the sooner the Christian Right wakes up, the better
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That was Martin Luther's deal. He found some things in several books that just didn't jive with all of his ideas of theology, especially the idea that those who CLAIM to be born again should ACT like it.\n\nInstead of changing his theology, he changed the Bible. \n\n(Mama gives ML THE LOOK...and sends him to the corner for being bad...)
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Martin Luther, wrote the 95 Thesis, reformed the Christian Church, from which we now have the Lutheran Church, was a major leader of the Reformation.
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When people say this country was founded by Christians, they must be talking about the Puritans.  Puritans would consider modern day Christianity heresy.  The pilgrims consisted of three primary groups: people fleeing persecution by the Church of England (Christians by their own definition), criminals fleeing prosecution, and adventures.\n\nFormer Southern Democrats who are now neo-conservatives or Republicans are the same Christians who wanted to keep blacks as slaves and supported the “separate but equal” laws. \n\nWhen I see “In God We Trust” assuming this is referring to a Christian God, I often ask which Christian God they are referring to… Amish, Anabaptism, Assemblies of God, Baptists (both Grace and Fundamentalists), Calvinism, Christadelphians, Christian Identity, Church Universal and Triumphant, Church of Christ, Church of England, Congregationalism, Coptic Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian, IURD, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran Church, Maronites, Mennonites, Nazarene, Methodism, Old Catholic Movement, Pentecostal Church, People's Temple, Pilgrims, Presbyterian Church, Protestant, Puritanism, Quakers, Roman Catholicism, Shakers, Spiritual Baptists, Thomas Christians, Unification Church, Unitarianism, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist...\n\n...since most of these religions claim to be the only correct version of Christianity, which one is our country founded on?\n\nThe self proclaimed Christian right have tried to impose their beliefs on America since America was founded; that’s the reason for the first article of the Bill of Rights.  \n\nThey consist of a small group of radicals who bark loudly.