@jolly said in Does Freedom Flourish Under Religion?:
The claims that America’s founders were mostly deists and that America was founded to be a godless secular society are not true.
Amusing to see someone alive in the 21st century still tilting at that old deist windmill. I thought that the deist credo no longer posed a threat to innocent Christian flocks and social morality. In any case, many if not most of the founders were deists and, God forbid, unitarians and assorted anti-trinitarians. None were godless as the epithet is used and thought of today. While they read and knew the Bible in its entirety they still based their republican thought on European political philosophers and Greece/Rome. Indeed, they actually had a pretty rock solid sense of history. I highly doubt they even thought of a secular society, wholly or in part - that sort of thinking would have to wait close to another century and an industrial revolution to occur.
I note that Prager really doesn't know what to do with Jefferson. The author therefore goes to some effort to sideline T.J.. Entertaining. I can't imagine what Prager would have to do if Thomas Paine had been a signatory founder. Most inconvenient.
