This is what our Founding Fathers really believed. It is why there was no opposition to including this phrase in the Treaty of Tripoli. It is also why they included "freedom of religion" as a fundamental right in the first ten amendments to our Constitution (and of course, they meant for "freedom of religion" to include the right to be free from religion). Found at the blog of
Yellowdog Granny.
Great that one of our revered founding fathers was able to clearly spell that out!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you need to learn your American history: Revolutionary War, 1776
DeleteConstitution adopted 1791.
This country is NOT founded on the Constitution, the federal government is.
This nation is founded on the Declaration of Independence!
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. " - John Quincy Adams
"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty." - Samuel Chase
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." - Patrick Henry
"It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans [muslims], pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves." - Samuel Johnston
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson