I never read it, nor an expert on the issue, but sounds interesting. I would say that though not all the Founders were certainly actual regenerated Christians, and the US was not constituted to be a theocracy, yet precepts and principals do not come out of nowhere, and it was Christianity that this nation's precepts and principals flowed from, over anything else. And it certainly implicitly relied on Biblical religion in order to enable the republic that could be kept.
►CAUSE AND EFFECTS: THE BIBLE AND EDUCATION ►History: Education in the United States (off site) ►LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION of a NATIONAL FAST DAY ►SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE (conservative analysis, off site) ►STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS (chart comparing many aspects of 50 states) ► MASS GENERAL LAWS (PDF here: file of ancient laws against sexual crimes, now changed) |