08-04-2017, 12:33 PM
DStisme: You may believe this is purely semantics, but you use "a religion" and "religion" interchangeably, but they are different. The Founding Fathers were very religious; yes, Christians, but they did not want the Federal Government to favor a particular religion or persecute the free worship within any religion as long as it didn't violate the law. I don't believe the Founding Fathers would favor keeping government and religion totally separate, for they felt gratitude to God for their victory over the British Empire.