Fact Check: Are There 42 Bible Verses In the Constitution?
This week, a Christian Nationalist preacher at the Abundant Life Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri declared that "There’s forty-two bible verses in the Constitution, and when you look at the Amendments for the Bill of Rights and you read through them it’s almost all right out of the bible.”
The statement was delivered so directly, so authoritatively, that we might presume that there's some reasonable ground for the claim. However, the preacher didn't bother to identify even one of these supposed 42 bible verses in the Constitution. Neither did the preacher identify one place where the Bill of Rights contains biblical language.
There's a good reason for that.
There are zero bible verses in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights is profoundly unbiblical and contains no language from the Christian bible.
The Christian bible is a consistently authoritarian text, promoting the power of kings and priests to control people without democratic elections, without individual liberty, and without a government that is anything at all like the government established under the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Constitution was developed in reaction against the Christian biblical tradition of monarchy mixed with theocracy.
The preacher from the Abundant Life Church was just plain wrong.
The evidence against his assertions is easy to find. All a person has to do is read the Constitution, and it's obvious that it has nothing to do with the Christian bible.
So why did none of the adults attending his lecture stand up and object? Why didn't even one of them ask a critical question to challenge the preacher's absurd statement?
The answer is sadly clear: Christian Nationalist preachers teach their followers to accept whatever they say as a matter of faith. Christian Nationalists don't check the facts. They believe what they're told to believe, and have little interest in learning anything outside of the sermons they hear at church.
What we have in Christian Nationalism is a dangerous combination: Unquestioning adherence to the declarations of religious and political leaders along with a hunger for totalitarian government.
Absolute power coupled with a detachment from reality is capable of the most horrific abuses imaginable.
For a more detailed analysis of these claims, including an amendment-by-amendment examination of the Bill of Rights for biblical influence, see the original article at Stop Christian Nationalism.
6
Enjoy being online again!
Welcome to the community of good people who base their values on evidence and appreciate civil discourse - the social network you will enjoy.Create your free account
4 comments
Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.
These charlatan grifters know they can lie because their audience is uneducated and ill-informed.
Beowulfsfriend
Level 9
Sep 28, 2022
0
Recent Visitors 20
yvilletom
CA, USA
creative51
You Can't Get There From Here,
CliffordCook
NY, USA
DenoPenno
MO, USA
Mcflewster
Reading UK,
Photos 791 More
Posted by DruviusTrump sinks to a new low.
Posted by CliffordCookIf you're going to punch, punch up, don't punch down. [app.suno.ai]
Posted by CorvisloverI drive a naked car since I live in a dark red state...
Posted by CliffordCook What Counts As A Trump Faith Leader In Iowa For The 2024 Caucuses There are 99 counties in Iowa, and Donald Trump would like to claim that he has support from a religious leader from every one of ...
Posted by CliffordCook Donald Trump's Political Ally in Iowa Believes She Is Fighting Evil Sorcerers of Baal and Promises Genocide To get a sense of how dangerously unhinged the Republican Party has become, let's look ...
Posted by CorvisloverBorrowed from my cousin.
Posted by ButtercupClever turn
Posted by johnnyrobishDeSantis Borrows a Page from Hitler - Vows to ‘Destroy Leftists’ When Elected So, it seems Donald Trump isn't the only Republican candidate for president who spent Memorial Day vowing to crush ...
Posted by johnnyrobishFascist Oath Keepers’ Leader Stewart Rhodes Gets 18 Years for ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday in the first punishment ...
Posted by johnnyrobishLauren Boebert Claims She Quit Taking Birth Control Because It's Cheaper to Have a Kid At a recent House Oversight hearing on drug prices, Boebert told a personal story about her access to ...
Posted by johnnyrobishRepublicans Moving on From Book Banning to Jailing Librarians The Washington Post reports that while Republicans claim they only want to keep “harmful” material away from children, new state ...
Posted by CliffordCook Beware The Satanic Mermaids A pro-Trump Christian Nationalist rally down, endorsed by Donald Trump, on Trump's property in Doral, Florida featured Amanda Grace, a Christian prophet who declared ...
Posted by johnnyrobishNew Florida Law Allows Providers To Deny People Healthcare Based On ‘Moral Objections’ Florida Gov.
Posted by johnnyrobishTexas Republican Angry that Folks Want More than ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ The Washington Post reports that investigators say the gunman who opened fire on an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb on ...
Posted by johnnyrobishMarjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Ban Adult Websites Like Pornhub The Daily Beast reports that Marjorie Taylor Greene is disgusted that websites like “Pornhub” exist and even more “horrified”...
Posted by johnnyrobishNewsmax Wants Tucker Carlson to Run Their Entire Network TMZ is reporting that right-wing cable news channel Newsmax is working hard to land former Fox News anchor and White Nationalist Tucker ...