I came across this interesting article about how the Founding Fathers of America was Christian and that America is Christian country by the recommendation of Mr. LaForest. At first, I was hesitated to read this 13 page article, but when I started, it was pretty interesting article to read because it was full of interesting ideas. After learning about the history of the United States and how religion took huge part of the history, it was interesting to read many arguments about what Christianity is to Americans.
The article talks about the Christian conservative activists who are trying to send their message that “Christians founded America, so we should acknowledge that by putting this information on textbooks” The activists, however, do not have supporting ideas to backup their argument to make the liberal American country to a Christian country. State of Texas is now considering making this happen, which can impact the whole nation because Texas is the leading state in education. They claim that America was founded by the Christian believer, activists, Don McLeroy and others, wants “use courts and public schools to fuse Christianity into the nation’s founding.” They are hurrying to make this happen so that next generation of kids can know the wrong history they are trying to change. This article is very significant because nowadays, people are not only trying to test the government to see if they can make their wish come true, but also go against the constitution (the first amendment).
I argue that this article is appropriate because it allows people to know how people in the new century thinks; the Christian activists lets us know how unaware of people are that they are trying to change the history. They are using the freedom of speech, but at the same time, violating the freedom of religion, which is kind of an irony. They have the right to say whatever they want, but they cannot make inappropriate claims like saying that America is Christian country. I argue that whatever the Christian activists are claiming should be stopped because of several reasons. First, America have stayed neutral in religion since the birth, and trying to change that is like changing the color of the American flag. Second, when religion takes part in politics, there would be big war starting, and people do not want to take part in any type of wars.
