The American Declaration of Independence doesn't recognize Christianity

    This morning, July 4, 2023, I found a copy of the American Declaration of Independence online and I copied and pasted it into a document file and removed from it all passages in which there is no reference to deity. Down below is what was left. I capitalized the four references to DEITY. 

    For the life of me, I do not see in anything below, nor anywhere else in the Declaration, that justifies how American Christians came up with the idea that America was founded on Christian principles. 

    Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, including its alleged author Thomas Jefferson, were Deists. Later in time, Jefferson led the charge to block this home state of Virginia's legislature from making Christianity the Virginia state religion.

"In Congress, July 4, 1776

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE'S GOD entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to THE SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about Christianity or Christian principles.

Amendment I of the U.S. Constitution plainly states the US Congress cannot establish or prevent a religion in America.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

    I posted that at Poetic Outlaws Facebook group, and something came back and I took the bait.

Mr. Raven writes Whisper from the trees
Yawn another self righteous, puritanical, humorless fundamentalist atheist, zzzzzzz... How boring.

Sloan Bashinsky
Atheist? 
Thomas Jefferson? 
Me? 
I sometimes tell Christians I know, if they lived in my skin a little while, they might wish there were no God, Jesus, angels, or Devil :-)

Mr. Raven
What does that even mean? Why is the thought of secular people always such a confused muddle?

Sloan Bashinsky
You didn't answer my questions and left your first comment more muddled :-)

Mr. Raven
How can you even answer a question when it is in the context of meaningless gibberish like:
"I sometimes tell Christians I know, if they lived in my skin a little while, they might wish there were no God, Jesus, angels, or Devil :-)"

Sloan Bashinsky
I'm pretty sure I write in plain English when I give it only half a try. You can answer the questions I put to you, or you can keep playing whatever kind of game this is that you are playing. :-)

Mr. Raven
I am very sure I am blocking you because you are a boring atheist shit heel, bye, bye.

Sloan Bashinsky
Himm, I did wonder if I might have punched some of your buttons, but atheist I definitely am not. I know for a fact God exists. Shalom

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