[JMJ333]

Did you see post #136, OWK? Major denial in process. Perhaps someone should point out to todd what is so painfully obvious to the rest of us. Apparently to him we're founded as an atheist or secular country, and none of our writings reflect Judeo-Christian mind-set. ROFL

[OWK]

Did you see post #136, OWK?

Yes, I did.

And it is 100% correct.

[jennyp]

Major denial in process. Perhaps someone should point out to todd what is so painfully obvious to the rest of us. Apparently to him we're founded as an atheist or secular country, and none of our writings reflect Judeo-Christian mind-set. ROFL

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [i.e. the founding of America] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses
-- John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America [1787-1788]

Of course American society was overwhelmingly Christian, but so was Great Britain! What's the distinguishing characteristic of the American form of government vs. England's? It's the rejection of the concept of the divine right of kings. America was a product of the Enlightenment, & England had way too much institutional investment in the principles of the pre-Enlightenment to change with the times. (America, a small, isolated population of British subjects, speciated from England!) Lucky for us, this philosophical revolution had legs, & was a vastly beneficial "mutation".