Susuto

Just wondering here - have you actually done any reading or research into the religious beliefs of the Founders? When you say things like, “the teachings of Jesus Christ (which America was founded upon)” it makes me think you might’ve skipped that part in U.S. History. Just to avoid appearance of bias, I’ll avoid providing information from sites you might consider biased like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State or any atheist websites.

As you’ll see here (http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/qtable.htm) they ranged from Deists like Jefferson through Theists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Quakers, and into Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Anglican. The author of that site provides his references so you can check for yourself.

A look at this posting from the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog (http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/02/the-us-fou … ) says, “Although the Declaration of Independence mentioned “Nature’s God” and the “Creator,” the Constitution made no reference to a divine being, Christian or otherwise, and the First Amendment explicitly forbid the establishment of any official church or creed. There is also a story, probably apocryphal, that Benjamin Franklin’s proposal to call in a chaplain to offer a prayer when a particularly controversial issue was being debated in the Constitutional Convention prompted Hamilton to observe that he saw no reason to call in foreign aid. If there is a clear legacy bequeathed by the founders, it is the insistence that religion was a private matter in which the state should not interfere.”

And, finally, some more interesting discussion from people who have actually done the research. The Cato Institute has an excellent discussion of issues of religion and politics in democracies here - http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/10/15/the-editors … The referenced book “asserts that liberal democracy or republican government is founded on atheistic or Hobbesian premises. Hence American government was founded to be “post-Christian,” and the American founding otherwise lacks a political theology.”

So, the people who’ve looked at it appear to say that the Founding Fathers would probably disagree with your statement that America was founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. They actually explicitly chose to leave those out and let people worry about religion on their own.