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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:

> It may be a deist belief or the belief of other religions, but it  
> doesn't
> exclude it from also being a Christian belief.  The question then  
> becomes
> how many of the authors of those documents were Buddhist, Taoist,  
> Islamic,
> etc.  I think the answer is none.  And since all of the founding  
> fathers
> came from a Judeo/Christian background, I think the attribution of  
> those
> concepts is appropriate.

The founding fathers had a variety of personal beliefs, including  
Christian, but many of the quotes thrown around to support the idea of  
a Christian nation are, ahem, inaccurate:

http://www.atheists.org/courthouse/charlotte.html#inaccurate

(i.e., fabricated, made up, misquoted, etc.)
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