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Originally Posted by Detector  I love how people can totally ignore the obvious in pursuit of their own wants. Obviously our founding fathers were god fearing religious people. The concept of separation of church and state has been distorted from its original intent.
Why do you suppose, until recently, our schools and state meetings started with a prayer? Our founding fathers that created this "separation of church and state" had no problem with religion in the capital or schools. |
Au Contare` my friend....quite a few of the founding fathers were not as holy as we have been lead to believe. They were more into freemasonry than Christianity.
"Of course many Americans did practice Christianity, but so also did many believe in deistic philosophy. Indeed, most of our influential Founding Fathers, although they respected the rights of other religionists, held to deism and Freemasonry tenets rather than to Christianity."
Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Madison, Franklin were all free thinkers. (meaning not really Christians as it's hard for a Christian to have any "free" thought)
Our Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians The U.S. NOT founded upon Christianity The Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians or Secular Humanists: a Refutation of Steven Morris