[elpadre]

In a study of the founders of this nation, their deliberations and the general tenor of the early years, it seems quite clear that the nation was deliberately founded under the authority of God. And, it was many years later that this so called separation of church and state became a real issue, not withstanding the minor effect of Jefferson’s letter to the Connecticut Baptists in that day.

Is that a fair analysis?

[allmendream]

The U.S.A. was a nation founded on the concept of the natural rights of man. As such men were free to place themselves under the authority of god as they saw fit. Jefferson’s letter was not an aberration, it was a sentiment of the spirit of the day, which was one of religious and civil liberty.

“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty” Samuel Adams