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Lastly, the verbiage dismisses the fact that several of the founding fathers were Deist.

So what? When has anything ever been decided with a 100% of people agreeing? The fact remains that a vast majority of the founder were religious men and in fact many of them were preachers/reverands themselves.

[Smartaleck]

"So what? When has anything ever been decided with a 100% of people agreeing?"

Because there was a diversity among the founders and if they intended the US to be a de facto Christian nation they would have said so, would they not?

"Congress shall make no law respecting the exercise of religion.........." Notice this is inclusive of all and generic in nature. It has served us well for over 200 hundred years. No need to elaborate on it.