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It is based upon the supposed religious convictions of the Founders,

Unnamed sources close to the Founding Fathers are reporting that the overwhelming majority of of them do not identify with the Moslems, Buddhists, Secular Humanists, Homosexuals, Socialists, or Atheists.

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True. But nonetheless, their personal religious convictions, and depth of faith, have been the subject of some discussion. Jefferson, for example, was a Deist.

Still, they did not deign to write a Constitution or Declaration of Independance which endorsed any specific faith, and in fact wrote the First Amendment to the Bill Of Rights in such a way as to proscribe a government-sponsored "official" religion.

Nowhere in either document is the name "Jesus" mentioned, nor is "Christianity". The Constitution, the only one of the two documents with the force of law, has no religious mentions whatsoever, and the Declaration mentions a "Creator" but once, and not in any specific setting.

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Unnamed sources close to the Founding Fathers are reporting that the overwhelming majority of of them do not identify with the Moslems, Buddhists, Secular Humanists, Homosexuals, Socialists, or Atheists.
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Nor did they 'identify' with over zealous religious views in the administering of our local,state or federal governments.
Check out Article VI, and the "no religious Test" phrase.

Case closed.