The Founders had no such view of religion.
They based our memorializing documents on the Bible, and they were all fiercely religious/
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
You are a moron and prove it on a daily basis.
Yep, they were so very deeply religious that they have setup the great American Theocracy experiment...oh no wait, what they have setup is a secular government based on ideas of enlightenment age.
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." -
Thomas Jefferson
Constitution being made for and functioning only among "religious people" IS PURE BULLSHIT.
Watch your language.
Vulgarity indicates you know you've lost the argument.
Now, let me prove it....and, take notes so you don't appear the fool again in the future.
1. As for the famous “separation of church and state,” the phrase appears in no federal document. In fact, at the time of ratification of the Constitution, ten of the thirteen colonies had some provision recognizing Christianity as either the official, or the recommended religion in their state constitutions.
a. From the 1790 Massachusetts Constitution, written by John Adams, includes: [the] good order and preservation of civil government essentially depend(s) upon piety,
religion, and morality…by the institution of public worship of God and of the public instruction in piety, religion, and morality…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Constitution
b. North Carolina Constitution, article 32, 1776: “That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority of either the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall b e capable of holding any office, or place of trust or profit, in the civil department, within this State.”
Constitution of North Carolina, 1776
c. So, the Founders intention was to be sure that the federal government didn’t do the same, and mandate a national religion. And when
Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, it was to reassure them the federal government could not interfere in their religious observations, i.e., there is “a wall of separation between church and state.” He wasn’t speaking of religion contaminating the government, but of the government contaminating religious observance.
2. This language from
Reynolds, a case involving the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment rather than the Establishment Clause, quoted from Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association the phrase "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." 8 Writings of Thomas Jefferson 113 (H. Washington ed. 1861).(1)
The following written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0472_0038_ZD2.html
" It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon
a mistaken understanding of constitutional history, but unfortunately the Establishment Clause has been expressly freighted with
Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly 40 years. Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional Amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States.
His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was
a short note of courtesy, written 14 years after the Amendments were passed by Congress. He would seem to any detached observer as a less than ideal source of contemporary history as to the meaning of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment.
The Framers intended the Establishment Clause to prohibit the designation of any church as a "national" one. The Clause was also designed to stop the Federal Government from asserting a preference for one religious denomination or sect over others.
Given the "incorporation" of the Establishment Clause as against the States via the Fourteenth Amendment in Everson, States are prohibited as well from establishing a religion or discriminating between sects. As its history abundantly shows, however, nothing in
the Establishment Clause requires government to be strictly neutral between religion and irreligion, nor does that Clause prohibit Congress or the States from pursuing legitimate secular ends through nondiscriminatory sectarian means."
From Chief Justice Wm. Rehnquist dissent in
WALLACE V. JAFFREE
472 U.S. 38, 105 S.Ct. 2479 (1985)
Nos. 83-812, 83-929.
Argued Dec. 4, 1984.
Decided June 4, 1985.
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. In short....Jefferson, at no time, suggested that religion be excluded from our government.
Only KKKer Hugo Black did that.
"... Black was head of new members for the largest Klan cell in the South. New members of the KKK had to pledge their allegiance to the “eternal separation of Church and State.”... Separation was a crucial part of the KKK’s jurisprudential agenda. It was included in the Klansman’s Creed..."
http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2011/10/hugo-black-and-real-history-of-wall-of.html]
Oh....and Hugh Black was Franklin Roosevelt's very first choice for the Supreme Court.
Separation of church and state?
One more of the lies one must believe to be a Liberal.
