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Came across this as I was doing research for an article, and while I have not read it all through, I was amazed that a Gov. resources could still record the extensive Christian historicity of the United States. Praise the Lord. This is only one part of a Library of Congress exhibit, and it has much more, including what the FBI's examination of Jefferson's letter from which the term "separation of church and state" is principally credited to indicates (part IV)

While not extensive as a book, it gives a good overview, and I would suggest you save the series to your hard drive before future gov. revisionists really go to work on it. On my next post I will list some links that relate to this subject, that may be helpful.

The Christian Roots of American Liberty: http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/cdf/ff/index.html

As regards religion and education:

http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Education_in_the_United_States

http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html

Separation of church and state: http://conservapedia.com/Separation_of_church_and_state

Moral decline:
http://conservapedia.com/Moral_decline

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/decline.html

Statistical correlations: Faith and politics, etc. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Statistical_Correlations.html

Costs of the War against God: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html

Not specifically to that point, but on a related note, little is said today about the role of the pulpit in America's formative years.

Professor Ellis Sandoz, many years ago, assembled "Political Sermons of the American Founding Era" in two volumes. This collection is now available online at the Liberty Fund Library.

A reading of some of these is an enlightening experience. There are sermons on the role of Divine Providence, Election Day Sermons, and one by Bishop James Madison (cousin of the "Father" of the Constitution and President James Madison).

These volumes are priceless reminders of those generations preceding and following the framing of the American Constitution. They are stirring reminders of the true nature of liberty, and its Source.

Aside from the Sandoz collection, Liberty Fund's Online Library is a tremendous source for all who wish to arm themselves with truth for the current battle of ideas.

Excellent.
What struck me, recently, in reading the Constitution is the way the the framers closed their work:
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. In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, Go Washington – President and deputy from Virginia New Hampshire – John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
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Combine that with the preamble

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
and you have an open-and-shut case that although the framers were convened to produce a secular document rather than a theological one, it would have been unnatural and strained for them to have completely avoided Christian language in their work.
Which in any case is blatantly obvious by the mere fact that the document was written in English. Had it been written in Arabic, you would have expected the authors to be Muslim, had it been written in Chinese you would have expected some implication of Confucianism, and so forth. Real cultures are associated with religions, you know . . .