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Originally posted by kstarnes
Well, at least you are using Google now.

The folks who started up America were escaping rule by the monarchy and the Church of England. This is one reason that they so strongly believed and stressed in writing that the Government should not interfere with the freedom of or from religion . . . and that both Government and "Religion" would be corrupted by this intermingling. If you read a little deeper you will see this is a major topic of Jefferson's and other founders' writings and that I am not just making this up!

The Founding Father's were also "deists" and not "theists". They were products of the Enlightenment movement which was based on reason, critical thinking and science. A deist does believe in a god, but does not accept, like the theist, that god plays an active role performing miracles and other supernatural acts.

I am not arguing that Christianity played a major role in drafting the early documents of this Country, nor I have ever made such an argument. The point that you and many other religious folks is missing is that Jefferson and crew had a good reason (England!) why they strongly wanted to keep the practice or non-practice of religion free and to keep religion separate from government.

This should be self-evident to anyone that simply reads a little history, what the Founding Dudes actually wrote, and stop listening to the talking heads (all of them!) who have an agenda.

FWIW.

Best,

Kurt

Yes but they never intended it to exclude Christianity if anything they wanted to protect it. They never envisioned Liberal democrats using it to promote Islam in our public schools while expelling children who say Christan prayers in class.