A secular nation

Nov 16, 2019
Nov 16, 2019 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

In reference to Mr. Madison’s (“The next awakening?” from the Daily Journal Nov. 12 edition) wish for a spiritual rebirth, I would like to remind him that we were born as a secular nation for a good reason.

(1) comment

Jorg Nov 16, 2019 10:02am

Very well put, Alan! Indeed, we need constant awakenings to remind the religiously inclined that we are a secular nation, founded on a secular Constitution. If the Founding Fathers wanted this to be anything but a secular nation, they would certainly have said so! Quite the opposite, they wanted this new promising nation to be different from the religiously infested monarchies in Europe, for very good reasons, and leave religion entirely out of government and instead up to each individual which god, or none, they wanted to kiss up to.

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