[risk]

Our Founders paid little heed to political beliefs about Christianity.

That's true for many of them. The universalists and deists (none of whom were secular humanists!) among our founding fathers got along fine with the hellfire and brimstone Puritans. That should teach us a lesson.

[jonestown]

" --- the framers of the Constitution derived an independent government out of Enlightenment thinking.

Our Founders paid little heed to political beliefs about Christianity.
And while we inherited common law from Great Britain, this law clearly derived from pre-Christian Saxons and cannot be seen as a simple codification of biblical Scripture."
253 jones

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That's true for many of them.

The universalists and deists (none of whom were secular humanists!) among our founding fathers got along fine with the hellfire and brimstone Puritans.

That should teach us a lesson.
255 risk

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It seems that the lesson of Constitutional religious tolerance must be be learned anew by every generation.

We are presently engaged in fighting a war with religious fanatics.
We cannot win such a war by acting intolerant, -- like them.

-- Just as we didn't win WWII by becoming socialist fanatics.