[Beetle01]

The Founding Fathers wanted a government based on separation of state and religion, and freedom to worship as one pleased.

Governmental decisions should not be based on religion. How could they really, there's so many different beliefs and intrepretations, even within the Christian community itself. But there's also many more religious beliefs in our ever changing and diverse nation today that it would be difficult to not have a doctrine of separation of religion and state. I think our forefathers saw the future and the change it held for our great nation nd wrote an elastic document to change along with it, amendments and all.

I'm just going by the actions they took and what they have said. you base your judgments on seperation of church and state although nowhere in any document is that said. To try and deny that the founding fathers wanted Christianity the be the guiding light by which we goverened our country is to totally just ignore the facts that are out there. They knew there would be more than the religion of Christianity here, and they made certain that those who worshipped differently would not be persecuted for doing so. The constitution is not meant to be an ever changing document. Occassioanlly a new amendment may need to be added. Very rarely. Its not the type of thing you can change on an annual basis to suit the needs of a current group in charge of our country. If that is so then there was very little need for it in the first place.

John Jay

(America's first Supreme Court Chief Justice and Co-Author of the Federalist Papers)
October 12, 1816 "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.