#661 drcordell

Uh, no, that is not what I wrote.

I claim that it is precisely because the recent experience in England that they supported a secular FEDERAL government. NOT a secular society. The two are not equivalent. The Federal government was separated from religion, but religion was not separated from the structure of the society and lives of the people. Each colony had religiously based charters and many taxed and supported specific religious denomination(s). So church and state (colony) were NOT separate, only a FEDERAL government was separated. Remember also that Maryland was Catholic and would not sign a constitution which required it to support the Anglican church. Politics is compromise. It was the history of the English Monarchy and Anglican church which made it clear that a FEDERAL government should not prefer a specific religion. They learned well.

Nowhere have I advocated or proposed a theocracy. Read again. I only pointed out, in reply to the charge that the founding fathers of the country were Deists, that they were Christians. QED.