{"id":33355,"date":"2026-04-04T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=33355"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:01:17","slug":"amerika-war-nie-eine-christliche-nation-und-die-gruendervaeter-wussten-das-genau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/amerika-war-nie-eine-christliche-nation-und-die-gruendervaeter-wussten-das-genau\/","title":{"rendered":"America was never a Christian nation - and the Founding Fathers knew that exactly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary of the White House, said on March 30 at a press conference that America was founded 250 years ago \u201con Judeo-Christian values.\u201d It is a sentence one often hears in Washington. It sounds self-evident. It is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lea250yeaus.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Founding Fathers of the United States came from a Christian nation - Great Britain, controlled by the Protestant Church of England, shaped by centuries of bloody religious wars between different Christian factions. That is precisely why they wanted to build something different. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin - they were all deeply influenced by the European Enlightenment, which placed reason above revelation and regarded religious authority with skepticism. Some described themselves culturally as Christians. Others adhered to Deism - the belief in a creator who created the world and then no longer intervenes. It is therefore no surprise that Jefferson compiled his own Bible, from which he cut out the Old Testament, all miracles, all supernatural elements, and even the resurrection of Jesus. What remained was morality. Not faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-69.webp?resize=640%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-69.webp?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-69.webp?resize=10%2C12&amp;ssl=1 10w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-69.webp?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_Kaizen-Investigativ2026-69.webp?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>US Constitution<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The founding documents themselves speak a clear language. The United States Constitution contains not a single reference to God or Christianity - not one. Its only mention of religion is found in Article VI, which explicitly prohibits religious tests for public office - at the time a radical break with European practices. The First Amendment prevents any establishment of religion by the state and at the same time protects the free exercise of all beliefs. It was not about promoting religion. It was about keeping the state away from it - and it away from the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously by the Senate in 1797 and signed by President John Adams, it is stated in black and white: \u201cThe Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.\u201d This is not a marginal remark. This is a ratified document of the early republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_kaizennewsday-2026-04-04T083347.465.webp?resize=640%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_kaizennewsday-2026-04-04T083347.465.webp?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_kaizennewsday-2026-04-04T083347.465.webp?resize=18%2C10&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_kaizennewsday-2026-04-04T083347.465.webp?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batch_kaizennewsday-2026-04-04T083347.465.webp?resize=768%2C424&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Declaration of Independence, which uses language such as \u201cendowed by their Creator,\u201d is also not a Christian document. The philosopher John Locke, whose influence on Jefferson is well documented, argued that natural rights - life, liberty, property - come from a higher source than government and therefore cannot be taken away by any ruler. Invoking the \u201cCreator\u201d was a philosophical move, not a religious confession. The Declaration speaks of \u201cNature\u2019s God,\u201d of a \u201cCreator,\u201d of a \u201cSupreme Judge,\u201d and of \u201cdivine Providence\u201d - nowhere of Jesus Christ, nowhere of the Bible, nowhere of a specifically Christian doctrine. This language was deliberately broad enough to include orthodox Christians, Deists, and all others who believed in some form of higher power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u201cJudeo-Christian values\u201d itself would have been completely foreign to the Founding Fathers. It simply did not exist in the political discourse of the 18th century. It only appeared in the 1930s and 1940s - initially as a response to the rising fascism in Europe. In the face of openly antisemitic National Socialism, American religious leaders and politicians began to emphasize commonalities between Christians and Jews in order to promote solidarity and counter the image of Jews as outsiders to Western civilization. After the Second World War, the term then became a tool in the Cold War - as a moral counter-model to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. During this period, \u201cunder God\u201d was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 and \u201cIn God we trust\u201d was declared the national motto in 1956. Both are often mistakenly regarded today as founding traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u201cJudeo-Christian values\u201d was originally intended as a unifying construct - broad enough to bring Protestants, Catholics, and Jews together under a shared cultural framework. In the late 20th century, however, it increasingly developed into a political instrument used to present certain moral and legal positions as historically rooted. What began as an attempt at inclusion became a tool of exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:100%; margin:28px 0; border:1px solid #d9d9d9; background:#ffffff; box-shadow:0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,0.08); overflow:hidden; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing:border-box;\">\n  <div style=\"background:#1f1f1f; color:#ffffff; padding:14px 18px; font-size:13px; line-height:1.4; letter-spacing:0.06em; text-transform:uppercase; box-sizing:border-box;\">\n    Reports\n  <\/div>\n\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kaizentrumpposts297-3.webp?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zitate von Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas Paine und James Madison zur Trennung von Religion und Staat\" style=\"display:block; width:100%; height:auto; max-width:100%; border:0;\">\n\n  <div style=\"padding:22px 18px 24px 18px; box-sizing:border-box;\">\n    <div style=\"font-size:28px; line-height:1.2; color:#111; font-weight:700; margin:0 0 18px 0;\">\n      Four voices from the early republic\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div style=\"font-size:18px; line-height:1.8; color:#1f1f1f; word-break:break-word;\">\n      <div style=\"margin-bottom:22px;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.35; color:#111; margin-bottom:6px;\">\n          Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)\n        <\/div>\n        <div>\n          \u201cChristianity is neither part of the common law nor ever was.\u201d <span style=\"color:#666;\">(Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814)<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div style=\"margin-bottom:22px;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.35; color:#111; margin-bottom:6px;\">\n          John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801)\n        <\/div>\n        <div>\n          \u201cThe Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.\u201d <span style=\"color:#666;\">(Article 11, Treaty of Tripoli, 1797)<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div style=\"margin-bottom:22px;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.35; color:#111; margin-bottom:6px;\">\n          Thomas Paine, political philosopher and author of the American Revolution (1737-1809)\n        <\/div>\n        <div>\n          \u201cAll national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me to be nothing other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.\u201d <span style=\"color:#666;\">(The Age of Reason, 1794)<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div>\n        <div style=\"font-size:20px; line-height:1.35; color:#111; margin-bottom:6px;\">\n          James Madison, 4th President of the United States (1809-1817)\n        <\/div>\n        <div>\n          \u201cReligion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.\u201d <span style=\"color:#666;\">(Letter to Edward Livingston, 1822)<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the United States, there are more than 200 different Christian traditions, each with its own theology, its own interpretation of scripture, and its own understanding of how the Gospel should be lived. The most determined Christian nationalists believe that Catholics, Methodists, and many other Christians are not \u201ctrue\u201d Christians. When a single Christian current claims to define the nation, it threatens the religious freedom of other Christians just as much as that of all other Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious influence on the culture and personal lives of many early Americans is undisputed. But cultural influence is not the same as constitutional foundation. Anyone who claims that America was founded as a Christian nation is not stating a historical truth - he is advocating for a concept of government that excludes those who do not share that belief. He retroactively transforms a secular constitutional system into a religious one - against the wording of the founding documents and against the intentions of many of their authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leavitt\u2019s sentence was short. 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