What people are saying:

• Facebook User: Where Constitutionally did this occur? Yes, there is no ONE religion purported by governing authorites as they did not want what they experienced by a King/Queen or a theocracy, but our founders….54 of 55 of original signers of the Constitution were Bible believing Christians and that is why the Declaration of Independence says that our most basic rights come from the Creator (God), not man. Many of our classics, including over 1,800 references in Shakespeare alone, are derived from Scripture. The Bible was the bedrock of Western Civilization and the most well-read book in all of human history. The fact that students are ignorant of this book is a travesty. The way this book should be taught in the public square should be from a literary standpoint(grammatical/historical emphasis)…it is rich with every genre from poetry to historical narrative to parables, letters, and travel logs, and contains more wisdom that any other book written with sections that make Ben Franklin’s “Poor Richards Almanac” pale in comparison. This literary gem and foundational pillar of our nation is becoming lost knowledge…
  • Facebook User: Facebook User Nope… From a scholar who has a PhD of Divinity… https://youtu.be/UBEkFEyFfR4?si=5qSOBdqUw75yPf6p
  • Facebook User: Facebook User And this follow up… https://youtu.be/OU7Lx73heAI?si=PXtbPQEV35QBu7gH
  • Facebook User: Karla Hay Brien the founding fathers worked hard to keep religion completely out of government all together. Absolutely nowhere in the US Constitution is God or Jesus mentioned. Your qoute left out the word “likely” Christians. More than one were Deist was a signer.. Also the Declaration of Independence states “their Creator” not the Creator which acknowledges religions other than Christianity. Actually Jefferson rewrote many parts of the Bible to a more acceptable in his eyes.
  • Facebook User: Karla Hay Brien You need to go back and relearn american history.
    The framers knew the folly of unifying religious doctrine with political doctrine from past conflicts in Europe like the protestant reformation. They knew that the only way they can have a truly free nation where you can worship how you want, is to design a secular government where government takes no position on religion. Even though the framers were deists themselves, they knew that religious secularism as a principal of the American experiment is required for true religious freedom.
    If you need evidence, see below. Feel free to fact check every one of these quotes.
    “As the government of the United States of America is not on any sense founded on the Christian Religion” ~ Treaty of Tripoli; initiated under President George Washington, 1796, signed into law by President John Adams, 1797, ratified unanimously by the Senate, 1797, published in full in all 13 states, with no record of complaint or dissent.

    “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship… 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.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT

    “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.” –Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813

    “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” –James Madison, letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774

    “Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?”– James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of VA, 1795

    “What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people… A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.” –James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785 .

    “He had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term– he had faith in laws, principles, causes and effects.” –Supreme Court Justice David Davis, on Abraham Lincoln

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” –First Amendment, Constitution of the United States

    “I have found Christian dogma unintelligible…Some books on Deism fell into my hands…It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared much stronger than the refutations; in short I soon became a thorough deist.” -Benjamin Franklin, “Toward the Mystery” (autobiography)

    “When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation, that he had never, on any occasion, said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion, and they thought they should so pen their address, as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However, the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice….he never did say a word of it in any of his public papers…Governor Morris has often told me that General Washington believed no more of that (Christian) system than he himself did. -Thomas Jefferson, diary entry, 2/1/1799

    “Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man”- Thomas Jefferson

    “There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”- Thomas Jefferson

    “Lighthouses are more useful than churches.”- Ben Franklin7. “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”- Ben Franklin

    “In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it.”- Ben Franklin

    “This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it”- John Adams

    “Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”- Thomas Paine

    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”-Thomas Paine

    “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”- Thomas Paine

    “The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession.”- Abraham Lincoln

    “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”- James Madison

    “In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.” ― James Madison

    “Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson

  • Facebook User: Facebook User yes, you should read your history as John Adam’s said religion and morality were indispensable to a free government along with most other founders including George Washington who wrote; “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
    It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?” Read the 13 States ORIGINAL requirements to serve in public office or within a governmental role, nearly all required Christian faith;) keep reading…