Originally Posted by Linkster

Maybe you missed my point - the framers of the constitution knew the drawbacks and dangers of mixing religion with government - so they intentionally left out any reference to a specific religion - to ensure a totally secular way of life in the laws of the US - many Christian "fundamentalists" try to claim that our laws are based on a Christian way of life, but they are just misinterpreting and using the Declaration of Independence from Britain as their justification - they fail to mention that the God referred to in that document is the God of Nature (since most of the framers were of the deists philosophy - not Christians - it had a totally different meaning at that time).

All of this was explained later on by the Treaty of Tripoli in the late 1700s which detailed in Article 11 exactly what the intention of the framers was.