Moonglow
Diamond Member
What Christian principles allowed the practice of genocide on the Native Americans?
What Christian Principles? I can't think of one.
Hypocrisy, Greed, Selfishness, Hate, Prejudice, are not Christian Principles. Their was nothing Christian about the Trail Of Tears.
Exactly. Another strawman our esteemed leftist friends build to use as diversion from the point that the Founders built a nation on Christian principles but made certain that no religious group, Christian or not, would have power over any other religious group nor would the federal government have any power over any person or group respective to religion. A Christian nation built on Christian principles that was not a theocracy. Not a Christian nation but a nation of mostly Christian people.
As we have already shown, the Founders were mostly abolitionists when it came to slavery, but they would not allow slavery to kill the new nation. The legacy of those same Founders were people of like mind who eventually were able to end slavery. And most of them did so because of their Christian values.
Oppression of black people, Native Americans, the Chinese, the Italians, the Irish, and any number of other groups in this country did not arise out of Christian values but were the antithesis of Christian principles. And in my opinion, it was mostly Christian influence within the fabric of our society that has accomplished the tolerance and acceptance that we enjoy today.
The early colonies were theocratic establishments and were not tolerant of even violating blue laws or sabath laws.