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To expand on that, it was settled by Christians, for Christians with the intent to keep any one single doctrine from being superior over another, to prevent persecution, such as happened under the Church of England..The history is there, for anyone wishing to see it.From the Library of Congress: Religion and the Congress of the Confederation - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Exhibitions Library of Congress
"The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men. The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion in the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress to concern itself with religion, the citizenry did not object to such activities. This lack of objection suggests that both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, nonpolemical Christianity."
We all have Christians and God to thank for our Constitutional freedoms, liberties, and the skeletal remains of morality.
Exactly! Anyone who knows early American history knows that one of the main reasons why America broke from England was because the English State Church routinely persecuted other sects or denominations of Christianity (just as the Catholic church had in prior centuries).