re: #72 austin_blue

Yes. They knew the problems that a State Religion caused, and the only way to deal with it was to excise religion entirely from the Constitution. Jefferson talked about “Nature’s God”, not the personal God of the Christian Bible. Big difference. The founders were Deists, not Theists.

Depends on the Founder, really. There’s a decided range among them. Jefferson’s crew were decidedly deists—“One God at the most,” as the saying goes.