[Robert_Paulson2]

Actually, history records it was rebellion against high taxes and no representation against a non responsive Theocracy in England, that drove us to purchase this freedom with our own blood. England at the time was a Christian nation, so in that sense, Christianity in Government, WAS responsible for the rebellion of our founding fathers.

If Christianity were responsible for the world's liberties, and freedoms, you would expect to have an entirely different kind of Europe than we saw during the dark ages, pogroms and inquisitions of 1500 years duration.

Less than eight percent of Americans even attended Church during the revolution. As many as sixty percent of them sided with England.

They believed they were commanded in the epistle of peter to the Church: "obey the king and governors" (the apostle peter, told them to do this, despite the fact that the roman governors happened to be using Christians for lion food at the time).

ON the other hand, I have zero doubt that freedom for our nation was God's idea. Freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion, instituted by the state (the bloodbath of Europe).

I also have zero doubt that setting up statues will fail to maintain our freedom. But then again, I never believed in statues and monuments... some people do.

I think this judge is grandstanding for publicity sake. IT is working.

[.30Carbine]

"To the kindly influence of Christianity, we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoy. In proportion, as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of the nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom and approximate the miseries of complete despotism."
Dr. Jedidah Morse

[=Intervention=]

Conviently, you leave out a common retort by the colonists to the tax-oppressors in England. "We have no king but Jesus."