It's really astonishing. I'm reading a book about the history of the King James Bible, In the Beginning. So far it's really a religious history of England. Church and State were one. Maybe that's why our Framers didn't want an official religion here, but still Church and State were one in the mother country.
ML/NJ
Speaking of the history of the KJV, it’s been 400 years ago this year, since it was translated.
It's really astonishing. I'm reading a book about the history of the King James Bible, In the Beginning. So far it's really a religious history of England. Church and State were one. Maybe that's why our Framers didn't want an official religion here, but still Church and State were one in the mother country.It’s official: Britain is no longer a Christian nation.
Yes, and the prevalence of Christianity among the founders is seen in the last paragraph of the Constitution:Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.The Constitution's writers took Christianity for granted like the air they breathed. The Constitution came out of a Christian milieu. It could not have come out of a muslim milieu; sharia would not have allowed it.
Personally, as a Baptist by conviction, I don't think we should have a State religion. I welcome persecution by the State. Certainly the godless, immoral, double-standards culture that is modern Britain anyway.