If our founding fathers were all Christians, why did they say this?

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Nobody can deny the fact that Christianity has played a huge role in our history. From the first Thanksgiving to the ideas of Jesus Christ that are embroidered in our culture today, Christianity and the Bible is responsible a big part of our heritage.

However, many conservatives will take this fact way out of context. They'll think that you have to be a Christian to be patriotic, which is simply not true. Following the more secular teachings of Jesus Christ (being charitable, loving one another, treating strangers with kindness) is what the men who founded this country were for.

I don't want to waste my time listing all these obscurant far-right arguments, so instead I'll list the facts straight from our forefathers.
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“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
- George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia (1789)

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1. an honest read of history is that america was founded by people who *rejected* christian government

they had plenty of examples of christian governments in europe.

first they fled from that model of government.

then they revolted against that model of government.

had they wanted to form a christian government, it would have been quite easy to do.

the great american experiment was a secular government, preserving the right to private practice of religion.

the religious right wants, at best, to take us back to the very model our founders explicitly rejected.