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To: DBeers
The Founding Fathers were brilliant men. They spent months and months working on the Constitution. They were very, very careful about what they wrote, discussing and debating every passage at great length. It seems to me that if they had intended this to be a Christian nation they would have said so somewhere in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers had no reason to be vague. There was no ACLU, no 'Activist judges.' If they had wanted a Christian Nation they could have written:

God Almighty, in Order to form a true Christian Nation, establish Divine Justice, insure adherence to His Laws, provide for the defense of His Church, promote His Word, and secure His Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, has led us to ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Instead they wrote:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

-James Huber

67 posted on 12/05/2012 7:30:47 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Only liberals believe that people can be made virtuous via legislative enactment.)
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To: Notary Sojac
The Founding Fathers were brilliant men. They spent months and months working on the Constitution. They were very, very careful about what they wrote, discussing and debating every passage at great length. It seems to me that if they had intended this to be a Christian nation they would have said so somewhere in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers had no reason to be vague. There was no ACLU, no 'Activist judges.' If they had wanted a Christian Nation they could have written.

The author is tilting at windmills. One could say he employs a straw man argument -much like the leftists. The Constitution limits government and as such where exactly does it state that America is NOT a Christian Nation? Where does it state that government can censor religion and or impose rules to prevent a Christian Nation? The government is NOT the Nation.

Referencing my quote below -clearly the US was founded premised upon a belief and acknowledgment in the Creator regardless any leftist arguments to the contrary:

Leftists often claim that America is not a Christian nation -more precisely, America is not a nation that recognizes God and His authority and or that God is not premise in our founding. This effort because the leftists consider the State supreme and God and His laws get in the way of tyranny for Utopia efforts.

68 posted on 12/05/2012 7:38:52 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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