Thanks again, SoSick for providing information from your depth of knowledge of things like American History.
actually, the founding fathers of america, who were by and large God fearing and believing, ... They were Christians.
And they including Deists and others among the mix. Ever read the
Jefferson Bible? How about the works of
Thomas Paine? Ever wonder where
some of the ideas of democracy came from?
... Catholic church or Chrurch of England ...
Yet the Church of England is (and was)
not strictly
catholic (having come to some picky disagreement with the Pope over a certain issue involving too many wives), rather it is an evolved faith (like all other christian faiths). Speciated, as it were.
... was not so distant a memory for them. It is what drove the Puritans to cross the sea and settle here in the wilderness.
And set up their own theocracy, where they set about persecuting people and burning people just as badly as they had been treated in England, thus demonstrating
vividly to the colonists that it did not matter which faith was involved, theocracy was a
bad idea. Thus when it came time to set up a new, "more perfect" government they included the separation of church and state.
... that they felt the need to put it in writing. If God were a small matter to them they would not have needed to mention His authority redundantly with praise.
Can you refresh my memory where god and religion are mentioned in the Constitution "redundantly with praise"? Perhaps
Article VI? Or was it
Amendment 1? Let me know when you find it k?
Meanwhile, what do you think of the Christian terrorist training camps? Fred Phelps? David Koresh? etc etc etc. - - - don't you agree that these are dangerously deluded people that actually harm the christian faith?
Enjoy.
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