Alana Massey: Taking Christ out of Christianity

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7. Our laws are NOT based on the Bible

"Our laws are based, for the most part, on the Bible."
This is a terrible MYTH.

The Bible never once mentions democracy. The Bible never once mentions freedom of speech or freedom of religion. It does not mention checks and balances and limitations on the power of the executive; nor an independent judicial branch; it does not mention elections or voting.

The Bible does not even mention tolerance for other believers, much less non-believers. There are more than 200 denominations in the US alone, and each claims to have the one true faith. The sheer number of claims makes it difficult to believe any one of them. And there are so many different versions of the Bible--including the Douay-Rheims used by Catholics that contains more books and different commandments! The KJV is well-known to have deliberately changed text to meet the political needs of the time.

The Bible provides no model for ‘good’ government or for personal freedoms. The Bible is a purely religious/theological document for some believers. The Commandments—10 or all 613 of them—do not represent American society.

We are not a Christian nation, nor a Judeo-Christian nation. We are a Constitutional nation.