Most of the Founding Fathers wouldn’t be considered Christian by most American Christians

“…churches show certain books, which they call revelation, or the word of God. The Jews say, that their word of God was given by God to Moses, face to face; the Christians say, that their word of God came by divine inspiration: and the Turks say, that their word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from Heaven. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.” - Thomas Paine “Age of Reason”

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Dino11 · M

In the 1760's, I think they did a great job with our 3 branches of govt., our Constitution given
they were new to all this with no precedents. I don't understand how these same founding fathers
allowed slavery to exist. I think monetary greed helped separate church from state,
and to an extent still does today.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Dino11 @Dino11 Thomas Jefferson was the first Democrat president. Most of the southern slave states were heavily Democrat. They are the ones who started the Civil War when REPUBLICAN Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
Oh, and there is no such thing as an official "separation of church and state" in our founding documents. The concept of the First Amendment (besides free speech) is to prevent the establishment of a state religion. (Kinda like Muslim countries have.) You can't really separate church and state. There is such a thing as a Capitol Hill Chaplain, paid for by taxpayer dollars.