There are many writings by our founding fathers about the positive impact of faith and religion and to suggest they “found few things more dangerous” than religion is simply not factually correct. I do not want to suggest our founding fathers were devout Church attendees but there is a great deal of documentation by them and many visiting dignitaries on the virtues of religious faith and the positive impact they were having on America. Most sought secularism not atheism and were focused on avoiding a national Church as opposed to eliminating religion from public life. Unfortunately, today secularism has been construed by many atheism and an intolerance for public displays of religion.

Much like “God” was included in the pledge allegiance in the 1950′s out of a reactionary fear to the communist movement, the current stand on religion in public life, which is there should be absolutely none, was expanded greatly in the 1960′s. Prior to that there was a largely universal acceptance of Christianity in the USA as is shown by our architecture, writings, church attendance and yes even politics. I would suggest our fathers would disagree with both of the actions above as I believe the evidence shows they “found few things more dangerous” than extremism, which grips our country today, and a government that attempted to intrude on the people which they directly instructed us to fight against.