The story is much more enlightening, and frankly, more educational than this meme projects. Yes, it's correct, at least on a surface level, but there's also the reason they decided to create a secular state. Namely, even though they were all, broadly speaking, Christians or Christian-inspired deists, they also recognised that Christianity came in hundreds of different flavours, not all of which are agreeable. They recognised that a religious state would have to pick a side in all of the hundreds of different spats that Christians have gone through over the most minute details of their dogma. Furthermore, they also realised that a state is most fragile when it is just founded, and thus, to survive, the state would have to have as much support as possible. Pretty much everyone was at least begrudgingly satisfied with a secular state.

You see, if they had created a religious country, they could not guarantee that it would stay loyal to whatever interpretation they had settled on. Future governments could, if they were able to, could easily "reinterpret" the state dogma to whatever they wanted. They understood that if the Government had the power to meddle in religious affairs, it was only a matter of time before someone whose religion was not agreeable to take over and start doing things that you don't like, justifying it with their religion.

Over 250 years ago, when the country was founded, the founders knew better than to believe the hucksterism of religion.

It’s very frustrating that most people, even today, cannot get past the hucksterism of religion.

These dumbasses. Can they read the first fucking sentence? They quote it all the time, maybe try reading it. It says

"We the people...."

Not

"We the people and invisible dieties...."

Nobody is coming down from on high to save us. It's only us to solve every problem.

They did however include 30 years of protected slave trade as an unamendable right.

So they still have that in common.

I read a lot of Goosebumps and Stephen King when I was a kid. You don't see me trying to start a government by gluing masks on people and feeding blood to cars. Some people appear capable of reading things without acting upon it and punishing their constituents.

Jefferson wrote/cut/paste his own Bible removing the magic-y stuff attributed to Jesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

I read the Constitution in my Bible, so obviously the founding fathers intended this country to be Christian, modeled after the godly mega churches.

How are you supposed to even run a state using the Bible? The old testament has some specific brutal and irrelevant rules. Then new testament tells you not to do that anymore. Then in its place the New Testament says VIRTUALLY NOTHING about how to run a state. Seriously.

All Jesus' teaching are appeals to personal conscience. He's NEVER talking to Christians about how to rule other people. Except, you know, where he explicitly says not to do that

"You know that the rulers of the [unbelievers] lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. NOT SO WITH YOU. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be a servant". Mat 20:25-26

About the only thing you can get from the New Testament is Paul saying that god appoints governments and that they bear the sword to punish the wrongdoer.

That's it.

Anything about property rights? Bodily right? Tort? Balance of powers? Structure of executive, legislative. ANYTHING??!

The founding fathers didn't base the constitution on the Bible because you can't in any way that makes the slightest bit of sense.

"Do not resist the evil people do" (Mat 5:39)... "Do not refuse the one who wants to take from you.. Give him the shirt off your back also" (Mat 5:40). Codify that. Good luck!