So, now that "religion" need not be artificially purged from discussion, as has been attempted in modern times from our American system of government, how might our own Constitution be supported, at odds with so many of the founders' and framers' beliefs?
How can it be historically unlinked from the American Revolution or Declaration of Independence?
Who could fathom that the original HOW would suffice to guide or bind us when the WHY and the WHAT have been so purposefully abandoned?
If we are to (or have) become a secular nation or government, shouldn't a more appropriate Constitution be drafted?
This one seems no longer suitable, exactly as predicted.
How can it be historically unlinked from the American Revolution or Declaration of Independence?
Who could fathom that the original HOW would suffice to guide or bind us when the WHY and the WHAT have been so purposefully abandoned?
“The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations … This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
–John Adams
If we are to (or have) become a secular nation or government, shouldn't a more appropriate Constitution be drafted?
This one seems no longer suitable, exactly as predicted.