Where Are They?

[John81]

America could not form a Christian government because of the variety of "Christian" groups involved and the permeation of humanistic teachings which many of the Founders held to. This is why references to God are generic or even put in humanistic terms. Rather than holding up Jesus Christ, which would be overtly Christian, they chose to use the term "Nature's God", which was a popular generic term used among many humanists of the time. Where Thomas Jefferson had penned "sacred", Benjamin Franklin OBjected because it was such a "religious" term, and marked it out, replacing it with a non-religious term.

Someone described colonial America, and the immediate post-Revolution America, as being made up mostly of Puritans in the North, Quakers in the Middle and Anglicans in the South. Of course there were also Catholics, Baptists and others in the mix, and none of these could agree upon biblical matters, much less forming a Christian government.