[Alex Murphy]

Related threads:
American Government and Christianity - America's Christian Roots
In Praise of a Puritan America

[GonzoII]

John Adams was the second president of the United States. He saw the need for religious values to provide the moral base line for society. He stated in a letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Words of wisdom, no doubt.

American Government and Christianity - America's Christian Roots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202421/posts