QUOTES OF FOUNDING FATHERS:
Eleven of the thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence already had state constitutions. ALL eleven required any person seeking public office to take a solemn oath of orthodox Christian belief. And twelve of the thirteen colonies taxed their citizens to support the preaching of the Gospel and to build churches. Nine of the thirteen recognized one denomination to the exclusion of all others.
Thus, historian Robert Flood wrote, “The concept of a secular state was virtually non-existent in 1776 as well as in 1787, when the Constitution was written, and no less so when the Bill of Rights was adopted.
To read the Constitution as the charter for a secular state is to misread history, and to misread it radically. The Constitution was designed to perpertuate a Christian order.”
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