@ DOS
"I suppose that the majority of americans ARE christian, and that many of the founding fathers were christian means nothing right?"
- Yes, you are right. The Constitution, and subsequent court rulings, have established conclusively and repeatedly that religion is a personal matter. It is not the government's job to endorse, promote or encourage any religious belief. And, no, an official statement of "figure it our for yourself" from the government is not sponsoring atheism, obviously.
And this business of the Founding Fathers' religious beliefs is really starting to annoy me. Declarations of faith were purposefully left out of The Constitution specifically because the FF's put their private feelings aside for the good of the nation. The fact that modern day religious zealots refuse to do that, and then claim that they are following the the FF's footsteps is nothing but a lie.
And for the record, the most common religion cited among the FF was Anglicanism. There were also a number of Unitarians, Quakers and Catholics among them. In other words, the majority of the FF belonged to denominations that modern fundamentalists refuse to consider Christian.
The second most common faith cited among the FF was Baptist/Congregationalist. In its early days the Congregationalist movement were enthusiastic supporters of secular (their word, not mine) states. Their movement was founded on the notion that it was everyone's duty to learn about the bible and decide for themselves what the proper path to God was, without pressure from the state. That's right DOS, we have the Baptists to thank for our modern day secular state. We literally could not have done it without them!
