Quote Originally Posted by MrSplitshot View Post
I can assure you that the Founding Fathers did not believe that religion had no place in government. They were very much Christian and quite clear in their beliefs about the influence religion had on the drafting of the Constitution.

The Constitution grants us the freedom to practice whatever religion we choose, free from persecution, and says that Congress can not establish a national religion.

That doesn't mean that religion and faith can't play a role in the decisions that our government of the people make.

http://james-a-watkins.hubpages.com/...unding-Fathers
I find it interesting that this web site that you quote to support your point that the Founding Fathers believed in mixing religion with government, and which tries to advance that point, cannot produce a single quote from any of them that supports this position. For instance, where they talk about Jefferson, they quote Cicero, presumably because any quotes of Jefferson's on the subject would have disproved their point. The site even goes so far as to misquote the Declaration of Independence, which does NOT say "that our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is granted to us by God the Creator of the universe.

The truth is that the "Founding Fathers" were not one homogeneous group in terms of religious beliefs, nor in their views on separation of church and state. And it's a fallacy that all of them were Christians. There were a number of them that rejected Christ's divinity. Check out this site:

http://www.jameswatkins.com/foundingfathers.htm

There was a long discussion of this in another thread a while ago, and I'm not going to rehash it. Suffice it to say that I firmly believe that the framers of the Constitution, if not all the signers, intended for church and state to be forever separate.