[TheRealThing]

Unless you are a bit more dense than I believe you to be, you know exactly what my post meant. I notice, of course, you won't enter the arena on the Deists and Founding Fathers thread. No worries. Let's not trouble that hoary old head of yours with FACTS that interrupt your belief system.

As for PE Trump, 2020 may be the watershed for the SCOTUS appointments. It actually amazes me that you believe freedom of conscience a concept alien to the Constitution.

We've already covered that topic in times past and I have no further interest in a rehash. The deist argument was thin when first presented, and to this very day is a laughably insufficient basis on which to reject the fact that the US was founded on Christian principles.

I can give at least one parallel by way of analogy. The fact is the vast majority of people in this world reject God, it follows then that they also reject the fact that we are created. So in an attempt to put together a plausible alternative to Creationism they turned to science. Some of the scientific community eventually came up with the theory of Evolution. It's bull, but those determined to deny the almighty His just due, rather choose to believe that the universe and all life came from a huge exploding rock floating out in inky blackness, surrounded by nothing.

Freedom of conscience, like Evolutionism or a magic exploding rock, is a baseless fabrication. Dreamed up by those who reject the Light of the world in an attempt to salve their own consciences.