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Originally Posted by WendyCal
You're wrong about that ~ 52 of the 55 signers of "The Declaration of Independence" were orthodox, deeply committed, Christians. The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention. That same Congress then formed the American Bible Society, and immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of this nation.
They were Christians.
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Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, two of the leading organizers of the first Continental Congress, were deists. Deism places reasoning and logic as being more significant than scriptural proof. That is also why the First Amendment of the Constitution explicity created a separation of church and state. Deists also believe that God created a set of natural laws to govern the universe, and did not directly interfere with humanity.
America was not founded by a largely Christian congress that fiercely obeyed a orthodox set of morals. It was founded by a group of liberal, landowning entrepenuers who set out to gain economic freedom from England.