American founded on Christian principles?

Zucas wrote: Well really one of the reasons they wanted to create freedom of religion and install a government that was free from it, is becuase they just came from Europe, which had come times where the Catholic Church basically ran a dictatorship over all of Europe. MOst of the founding fathers wanted to escape this. They may have been Christians themselves, but in no way did they want to give any kind of religion any political power, as this was one of their reasons to coming to America was to escapte the corrupt clutches of the Church in Europe.

Philosophical Mind wrote: Yeah your rite to an extent, but I don’t think you get my point. It was founded on Christian principles because if it wasn’t why do we have to put our hand on the bible when we go to court, or why do Presidents put their hand on the bible when they are inaugarated, because Chrisitian principles are at the base of it all. The founding fathers had to contradict themselves in order to get the type of support they wanted, while at the same time trying to maintain a sense of Christianity in the persuasion process of gaining control/ power. Not only that, religion, particularly Christianity, was a part of everyday life and there would have been no way they would have never gained support of its creation by its future citizens. Clearly the bill of rights was a reflection of the time period, and how they believed things should be which may have been contradictory to some Christian, but nonetheless the citizens were clearly protected and aimed at being pleased in its creation; therefore, since interpretation of Chrisitan principles governed the time period the Constitution must be largely representative of Christian principles.
P.S. The first Amendment statement about freedom of religion was probably aimed at the different denonminations which seperates christians from one another.