[mkjessup]

But to demand that a conservative religious morality be basis of American law is not conservative in a political sense. And it is definitely not conservative in an American sense.

Who is demanding that?

By the way, quite the laundry list of misdeeds and moral failings of the likes of Franklin, Morris, Hamilton, Madison, Adams and Washington. For a moment I thought I was reading the latest press release from Howard Dean over at the DNC, you know: always accusing, always the critic.

Fortunately for our Republic, Almighty God chose to use those individuals in furtherance of His Will, and the establishment of the American Republic was clearly part of that Will. Our willingness or refusal to do that which is spelled out in Chronicles 7:14 ["If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."] will determine if this Republic will survive or not.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Fortunately for our Republic, Almighty God chose to use those individuals in furtherance of His Will, and the establishment of the American Republic was clearly part of that Will. Our willingness or refusal to do that which is spelled out in Chronicles 7:14 ["If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."] will determine if this Republic will survive or not.

I agree with you that there seems to have been some divine providence behind the creation of this nation -- certainly in the way that such different geniuses could be brought together in one time and place.

However, the men who put it together were not universally men who "turned from wicked ways" -- at least not as modern religious conservatism would define "wicked ways." For that matter, in Second Chronicles 7:14, God was responding to Solomon, another divinely-guided rulers who seemed far from perfect morality.

(For that matter, it's an open question as to whether that passage in the Bible refers to nations in general or only the kingdom Solomon ruled.)