[realpatriot71]

Early America was a mostly Christian society and all the ideals that come along with that. The Founders, a smatterting of many faiths, were intelligent enough to see the dangers in a purely religious governent (midevel europe and the middle east are such GREAT places, huh) that they set up a SECULAR government to protect the natural (God given) rights of man including freedom religion.

This is problem for people to understand?

[jstone78]

{....they set up a SECULAR government to protect the natural (God given) rights of man including freedom religion...}

It would be more accurate to say that they opposed the establishment of a national church, be it Anglican, Presbyterian or Catholic.

But they believed that the moral foundation of America was Christian. They had a non-denominational Christian vision of America, rather than a secular or atheistic one.