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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: jlallen who wrote (52580)7/7/2002 3:35:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The only reference to the Lord I see in the Constitution is
Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

If that argument is valid, then referring to the year the American Revolution began as 1775 A.D. must mean one is a Christian. It can be argued that the reference above is strictly formal and customary and otherwise meaningless.

Had the founders intended to write a religious document, they could have. Had they intended to establish a religion, they could have. They did not.
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