What an extremely valuable post. Thank you.
They intended it, however, no matter what their vision was.
Not every concept in the Constitution is stated only one way, so it is foolish to say the Constitution writers were not aware of the concept. In fact in this case they were careful to keep the MENTION of God out of it, although the whole thing was inspired by Christian love for others.
Wouldn’t you love to have been in on these discussions? Not everything is covered in the Federalist Papers. Purposely.