{{_ If the Founding Fathers were Christians and they wanted to establish a Christian nation, then why didn't they mention Jesus Christ even once in a document that they knew would be the cornerstone and foundation of the emerging democracy? That's like Marx writing the "Communist Manifesto" without mentioning "socialism". - Robert Paul Reyes}}
- Quoted in forum thread.
Actually the Communist Manifesto mentions "socialism" many times but only to renounce it.
Fredrich Engels helpfully explains this in a footnote to the Communist Manifesto.
[3] NOTE by Engels to 1888 German edition: The revolutionary storm of 1848 swept away this whole shabby tendency and cured its protagonists of the desire to dabble in socialism. [[...]]
The various forms of socialism explicitly renounced by Marx and Engles in the Manifesto bear some resemblence to the various creeds of Christendom implicitly avoided by the founders of our Republic.
The founders wished to reserve the establishment of specific varieties of religion to the states and to the people.
(Connecticut had an established religion until 1820 under a proper interpretation of the establishment clause of Bill of Rights. It is unbridled judicial activism that has stripped the states and the people of this and other rights.)
But as Marxism and Communism fall somewhere within the spectrum of socialism.
So, also, the United States falls somewhere within the spectrum of Christian nations.
