[mrustow]

I see where you're going, and you're can't there from here. The Founding Fathers were deists, not Evangelicals, and philosophically were much closer to John Locke's agnostic theory of natural rights, than they were to the Old Testament.

[HiTech RedNeck]

When I read Thomas Jefferson, it impresses me that this confessed non-Christian still knew and preached more of the bible than about 50% of today's orthodox trinitarian Christian Baptist pastors. If that doesn't say something about the spiritual tenor of the time and place of the founding fathers I don't know what does.

Anyhow bible or no bible it's moot. The founding fathers were fed up to "HERE" with the shenanigans of the English Crown. They would not countenance dishonesty on the part of government, even dishonesty with good intentions.