A Larger Loss, Revisited: Our Christian Nation

Earlier in the week I corrected Michele at ASV for not understanding that Judge Roy Moore was correct in his comments made to Christianity Today that:

"The acknowledgement of God is basic to our society, to our law, and to our morality. Christianity is in a prime position to wake them up. I can't do it alone, and Christians need to be awakened to what's going on in our country. If we continue to let this happen, what will happen is a complete departure from our constitutional form of government. The basis of our morality is being destroyed. We have no morality without an acknowledgment of God."

While she is entitled to her own opinions about faith and is free to practice (or not practice) her freedom of religion as she chooses, she isn't entitled to get the facts of American History wrong.

Needless to say, this became a bit of a hot topic in the comments, and Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas came over and thought we were entitled to his logical fallacies on the subject, including the whopper that the Bible was against the American Revolution. He didn't get any better, or any more coherent.

Finally he says:

"Alright then, enlighten me.

How is the Constitution of the United States a Christian document?"

The Constitution came well after the founding and creation of our country.

Written in 1789, the Constitution came 12 years after the American Revolution started, and indeed 7 years after we became an independent, God-fearing nation.

The Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, was our Founding Document, and it is decidedly Judeo-Christian in nature, invoking the Judeo-Christian conception of God five times.

As the Supreme Court ruled in 1897, the Constitution can only be understood in the context of the Declaration of Independence, and indeed, dates itself from the Declaration of Independence, and therefore, you cannot read the Constitution with regarding the Declaration as the thought and spirit of the Constitution.

All governmental acts of our founders are dated from the Declaration, and in the Declaration of Independence, the Founders established the foundation and the core values on which the Constitution was to operate.

As the Declaration is Christian document, the United States of America is a Christian nation.

This fact was not lost on Chief Justice Moore, who, after all, was a Constitutional Scholar and an excellent jurist, not something we can claim about at least five members of our current federal Supreme Court, which as recently as last week used laws from other countries as the basis for deciding an American Constitutional case.

I predict that we will soon see an end to judicial tyranny, Alex, and you and other poorly-educated secularists will not like what that holds in store for your recent and curiously convoluted interpretations of the Constitution.