- recognize that America is a Christian nation
- ignore the myth of "pluralism"
Modern secularists have problems understanding the American
relationship between religion and government because they do not
understand that the Founders believed
- Religion was the foundation of government;
- There was a true religion and there were other false religions;
- It would be suicidal to base a commonwealth on a false religion;
- The Government, in order to survive, must endorse and promote the
Every single person who signed the Constitution agreed with these
four premises, and they agreed that the true religion was Christianity.
It doesn't matter that they didn't agree among themselves as to the
details of the Christian religion. It doesn't matter that they made sure
that one variety of Christianity would have no legal power over other
varieties of Christianity. What matters is that not a single signer of
the Constitution believed in the "separation of church and
state" where the word "church" means "Christianity,
the true religion."
The pages below are designed to explain these propositions and to
show that they were universally held by the Founding Fathers.
next: The Myth of the "Separation of
Church and State"