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"The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.”

John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61

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Patrick Henry:

“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”

[May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

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James Madison “ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

[1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

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George Washington:

“ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

I love those quotes. And I want our president and leaders to be men of God. But the founders intentionally constituted our government to be secular. Great Britain's government was an admixture of church and state. The monarch was/is also the head of the church. As a result, religious persecution occurred when subjects chose other religions. Therefore, the founders of the US set out to establish a government that had no religious test for office.

This does not mean that they did not want our elected officials to be ethical, moral, godly. But they left it to the citizens and the states to decide who the leaders would be.

The notion that our founders intended the United States Government to be a "Christian government" is not only laughable, it is downright wrong. We are a Christian nation with a secular government that allows ALL religious to be practiced openly and freely. Attempts to somehow "reconstruct" and/or "christianize" our government will not only fall flat, they are misguided and betray a lack of understanding of the Torah, the Nebhiim, the Ketubhim, the Gospels, The Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and the Book of the Revelation.

The Bible does not encourange believers to Christianize the United States government. It tells us to make disciples our of ALL nations and to prepare for the coming of our Lord, who will establish HIS kingdom.

So get a grip and start witnessing and leading people to Christ instead of wringing your hands over this notion of making our government "christian."