Basis of Our Country

In discussing the article in class, it is quite obvious all of our beliefs and opinions were revealed. I observed the verbal aggressiveness as individuals spoke, facial expressions of concerns or agreement, or just a rather simple nod or shake of the head determined whether we concurred or were against the statement spoken. I have ultimately concluded that no matter how much we share in common or how each one of us find an opinion outrageously preposterous, we ultimately will never see eye to eye the views of someone else in understanding him or her completely. This defines what we learned in class; a discourse. In that being said, my opinion about the topic was determined completely by only my discourse.I have been raised as a Christian child my entire life, so my beliefs are brought upon differently by others. This is the basis of my perspective on ideas classmates stated in class. Although I understood the opinions stated in class, each person had an individual opinion within his or her self, let alone by his or her discourse. I, myself, do not mind Christianity being permanently put into history books and being stated as “an overall force for good.” This is because I have been raised to live for God, completely. The American nation was founded upon Biblical principles basic to Christianity and to Judaism which it flowed. The basis of the Bill of Rights is influenced from chapters of the Bible in Exodus, Saint Matthew, and Isaiah. If we did not have a moral background, our country could have ended up as a Totalitarian government, such as in 1984. Totalitarianism bands individuals’ rights for anyone except the state. In that being said, without the assistance of Christianity would our Bill of Rights still be the same? Would we be allowed the same freedom laws as we obtain now? If it were not for the Bible, would our Bill of Rights be the same? In this reason, we should give at least some acknowledgment towards the Christian faith in putting it into the text books. Yes there are plenty of religions that could be put into text books: Muslims, Jews, Naturists, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Unitarians, etc., but the morals of those religions were not put into the Bill of Rights. Although, our society is not set in stone to be a Christian nation, our society was based upon the morals and beliefs of that faith. Why on American coins do they state “In God we trust”? That is because it is crediting the Christian faith, but is not forcing people to be apart of the religion, which brings us back to the Bill of Rights. All in all, Christianity should be put into school text books because it assisted our country to the outcome of all our freedoms of today.