The majority of Americans wouldn't understand what they were saying. They were far more intelligent than most modern day Americans.
We as a nation are too far gone morally to restore this nation...
Agreed! But then no man has ever been able to "restore" a nation. If God does not build the walls, then those who build labor in vain. I take heart from the fact that God granted Israel repentance when she was further down the road of rejecting God than America is, and I pray regularly that God will do the same for us.
Yes they were genus of the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.
I personally believe that we are past all that now and America’s fall is imminent... The Day of the Lord is at hand! Rev. 6-19
Obviously making distinctions is a bridge too far for many.
Establishing laws and rules that govern and guide the citizens of any nation, is a this worldly pursuit while behaving well in this life in order to ascend to an afterlife, is an other worldly pursuit.
And conflating the two muddles both.
Burke, a Father of Principled Conservatism, correctly asserted that conservatism, a set of attitudes and behaviors derivative of the Natural Law is both non-ideological and non-religious in impulse and thrust.
The Greeks and Romans of Antiquity who founded Western Civilization well understood this and they pre-dated Christ and the Gospels by some 7 centuries!