[Long Cut]

Funny, I don't seem to be able to find the Ten Comandments listed in my copies of either the Declaration Of Independance, The Constitution, or the Bill Of Rights; nor can I find reference to ANY specific religion or its tenets.

Listening to some posters here, one would be forgiven for thinking that they would be prominently featured, and codified therein. Also, one might think that SOME reference to America as a "Christian nation" would be there in inescapable form, as well.

HMMmm, just checked again...nope. Do I have an incorrect copy?

[Modernman]

I remember this thread from ages ago. What brought it back to life?

[Qwinn]

Well, Congress's first official act was to provide Bibles for the nation's schools.

That should give you a hint that freedom -from- religion was not part of the plan.

Qwinn

[Once-Ler]

nor can I find reference to ANY specific religion or its tenets.

There is a reference to Christ in the US Constitution : "Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth."