Originally Posted by Jeanie
We do stand for freedom of religion so Pwcca is correct technically. I have a picture of George Washington praying by his horse, though. I believe as imperfect as they may have been that all our founding fathers were led by God in founding this great country which my fathers died for.


The founding fathers could have been ministers and priests, that still does not indicate that the government itself was founded on the holy bible. Moreover, many of the country's founding fathers were deists and as such had no connection to the holy bible.

There really is no way to argue around the fact that the First Amendment very clearly indicates a non-religious (non-Christian, non-biblical) framework. It doesn't matter if every political member of the U.S. government from George Washington onwards was a devout Christian, the government itself and its foundation give no precedence to one religion over the other any more than it gives precedence to the holy bible over the koran.