If they were trying to build a country based completely on christians morals, they would have made all the ten commandments laws. There wasn’t any laws against adultery or cursing god out, plus religious freedom was added when they could easily discriminate against other religions. That whole “this nation was built on Christian values” comes from the fact that the majority of settlers were christian. On the same hand, dutch was the major language moreso than english so I guess you could say this “country was founded by dutch values” too.
Also, just by having god in the constitution does not mean he should have a prominent role in rulling it. Every document back then started out like that(“in the year of our lord 1756” etc…) and the separation of church and state has been something the government has followed since it’s beginning. I don’t know what bunch of good christians wouldn’t take it apon themselves to separate their religion from their country if they were basing the country off of it’s principles.
Now personally I think the people who bring these things to court are just morons looking for attention(no reason a atheist should be offended by something he believes doesn’t exist) but I don’t like it either when people point out “God” in the constitution inorder to justify one-sided christian moral values while completely ignoring separation of church and state.
No offense Ben7, but this country wasn’t made to be a bastacion for christian-esque laws. It was made to be a uptopian society that would be based off roman and greek politics according to the founding fathers.