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Originally Posted by nickerjones
Iowa Flames Fan
I know all these facts as i took the same government classes you took
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I doubt that, unless by government classes you mean graduate history classes... But backgrounds aside, your original statement is just wrong. The U.S. was not founded by "religious" men--unless your definition of "religious" includes secular enlightenment thinkers.
In the beginning, your claim was basically that the evangelical values of GW Bush are somehow consistent with the values of the framers. This is simply false. First, the framers were not all that religious. Second, they specifically marginalized religion in the constitution. This is not a matter of opinion, or interpretation--it's a fact.
And in any case, the values of G.W. Bush are not really consistent with those of the Puritans anyway. They're really more in line with those of their religious oppressors, the English.