Below is from John M. Buchanan, editor at Christian Century magazine. He quotes Steve Waldman (co-founder of beliefnet) in Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in American.
"Some of the founders were orthodox Christians, some were closer to Unitarianism, some were Deists. Whatever their beliefs, they knew that for their experiment in nation-building to work, it could not have a state church, state support for religion, or state interference in the sacred territory that was each individual's conscience. "The Founding Faith," Waldman says, "was not Christianity, and it was not secularism. It was religious liberty—a revolutionary formula for promoting faith by leaving it alone."
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I wish someone would read your post to James Dobson.
Anonymous: go to SojoMail@sojo.net to read Jim Wallis' Hearts and Minds article about Dobson and Obama. I'm sure that reading the "free to believe" post to Dr. Dobson would not make a difference.
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