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To: hellbender
Re 142: I guess you have never read any of the writings of the people who actually drafted the Constitution, or voted on it. Those writings are chock full of invocations of the Almighty OK, but so what. Personal motivations and beliefs do not make law. The USA is a republic based on law.

The Founders certainly had personal beliefs, but they were thoughtful about not imposing them on others.

Go, thou, and do likewise.

There is not a single mention in the Constitution about any god or about Christ. Art VI says atheists, pagans, etc. are equal because there "shall be no religious test."

158 posted on 08/01/2006 6:06:46 PM PDT by thomaswest (I just believe in one fewer god than you do.)
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To: thomaswest

As another poster showed, the Declaration of Independence, among many other writings of the Founders, is loaded with theistic language.
There were very few avowed atheists at the time the Constitution was drafted. The article you cite, indeed the entire Constitution, makes absolutely no mention of atheists or pagans. The intent was to see that membership in any particular sect was not required for office, because there were many sects in America at the time, almost all of them Christian.
Your reasoning is exactly that of the liberals who find imaginary justifications for abortion, property seizures, unconstitutional governmental programs, etc.: You read in things which are not actually in the text.


166 posted on 08/01/2006 6:27:28 PM PDT by hellbender
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