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Originally Posted by WendyCal
And really, if that's truly how our founding fathers felt, why was that corrected instead of changing everything else to read like that?
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Because they already do read like they purposefully exclude God, gods, deities, mysticism, and supernatural concepts in general. The constitution mentions a possible reference twice. Care to see the context?
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"the laws of nature and nature's god"
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Which in and of itself references no god in particular much less the Christian God.
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"endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."
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Which could very well mean nature, abiogenesis, your mom & dad, but most importantly is not a reference to any particular religion. ****, it even tries to be sensitive to all religions so that all people can accept it for what it is.
How about the first amendment?
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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.
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See? NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION. Pretty clear. There can by no law that exists strictly because of religious reasoning. You know why that is? Because America was founded as a secular nation.
As for the founding father's beliefs. Most of them were Deists, not Christians. Aside from the mentioned two, Jefferson was probably the most out spoken of the deists. Washington didn't speak much of religion and pretty much made it publically known that it wasn't in his interest at all.