Yeah. It was a general lie that the founding fathers weren’t faithful Christians. Outside of autistic Thomas Jefferson, they still seemed to have some form of Christian beliefs. The issue was that each state had its own form Christianity, including state churches, and realized that the federal entity could not be religious as it could cause a major schism in the new Republic.
Also, the Bill of Rights was written with the intent to only bind the Federal Government. It was absolutely intended that individual states could regulate religion and that choice was to be made at the state level.
Almost as if the Founders who wrote the 1st amendment could see this coming.
Yeah. It was a general lie that the founding fathers weren’t faithful Christians. Outside of autistic Thomas Jefferson, they still seemed to have some form of Christian beliefs. The issue was that each state had its own form Christianity, including state churches, and realized that the federal entity could not be religious as it could cause a major schism in the new Republic.
Also, the Bill of Rights was written with the intent to only bind the Federal Government. It was absolutely intended that individual states could regulate religion and that choice was to be made at the state level.