If indeed the Founding Fathers were Christian, would it not have been a purposeful matter for them to have made the government separate from religion? If, as Christians, they wrote the Constitution as they did, it would seem to me to be a very deliberate act to say that the government would stay out of religion.
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Letter: Keep government out of religion
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