America was Founded on Pagan Ideals

"In 'Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America,' religious historian Randall Balmer of Columbia University writes that a 'contrived mythology about America's Christian origins' has been a factor in the reentry of evangelicals into political life, helping sustain the conservative swing in American politics."
       -- "For evangelicals, a bid to 'reclaim America,'" by Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor, March 16, 2005

Right-wingers claim that our nation was established in 1776 upon Christian ideals. They're wrong. Democracy and republicanism are historically Pagan ideals, directly opposed to churchly authoritarianism.

Most of America's traditional patriotic symbols are deeply Pagan ­ deliberately chosen by the Founders to show that the roots of the Revolutionary values of equality, cooperation, and liberty lay, not in Jerusalem, but in pre-Christian Athens and Rome. Follow the links below, and you'll learn why America's proudest symbols are temples, pentagrams, and goddesses. Then, read an explanation and two published commentaries on how we as American Pagan activists strive to give life to those symbols and ideals.

Does this look like a church to you?

Do these look like crosses?

Does she look like Jesus?

From Patriotism to Matriotism: Why Pagans are Politically Active

Why I Refuse to Recite the Pledge, by *Diuvei

A Day of Infamy, by Lady Passion & *Diuvei

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