You don’t have to inform us of anything, so stop being insulting. The Constitution is the law and defense of our freedom, not the Bible. Which version of the Bible would you pick? Which denomination? Which religious leader’s or preacher’s preference of interpretation would you impose on the rest of us?
While separation of church and state is not defined in the false terms which the democrats prefer to use, the Constitution does proscribe that there will be no state religion. This was wisely set up by the founding fathers to ensure that no particular religion or denomination would be forced on our citizens as the basis of law.
To say that the Bible should be put forth as the defense of our freedoms is no different than a muslim saying that sharia law and the koran would best defend our freedoms. The Constitution has some basis in biblical writings and the Christian Bible derives directly from the Jewish Old Testament and many of those concepts have proven basis in older religions and cultures that predate Old Testament tradition.
The Constitution gives us the force of law to defend freedom. John Adams was a great man, but he and Jefferson were precluded by the framers from taking part in the drafting of the Constitution because of both their secular and religious views that might have been in opposition to the framework the Constitutional framers gave us.
I have spent my adult life sworn to defend the Constitution which details and preserves our freedoms. I did not swear to support and defend the Bible, the koran or any other religious dogma. I swore to support a document of laws that defend your right to subscribe to any religious belief you want, or none.
Your implication that if we are not bound to one or more of the various Christian views of morality or the view of the Bible you subscribe to that we cannot be good Americans who support the Constitution and the freedoms given to all of us in the Constitution. Your proposal would supplant some or all constitutional law with a religious document.
You owe many of us an apology.
A hearty bravo to your excellent post. With the exception of the above statement, I completely agree with you. May I gently pick one small nit regarding regarding the historical inaccuracy of the above? Adams and Jefferson were both in Europe at the time the Constitution was written. In 1785, Adams had been appointed Minister to Great Britain, and Jefferson Minister to France under the by the Continental Congress. They were our new nation's first official ambassadors (although Benjamin Franklin was our first unofficial ambassador-at-large in Europe prior to the Revolution). The Constitution was written two years later, in 1787.