Everett Tucker

Godless Constitution: How Founding Fathers Wanted a Secular America

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Godless Constitution: How Founding Fathers Wanted a Secular America

How do we know the Founding Fathers wanted to keep american government secular? Their own words and actions…

Was the United States founded as a Christian nation, meaning that the framers of the Constitution established a government whose laws would not only reflect but also enforce the rules of a particular brand of Christianity? No, period. The answer is as clear as Santorum’s pronunciation of Judeo is slurred, and the explanation can be found in the old (i.e., pre-1980) American practice of identifying oneself by denomination.

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