| Description: | Does it really matter whether America's Founding Fathers were Christian
HONOLULU, August 15, 2012 One of the controversial questions that frequently emerge during presidential election years is America founded as a Christian nation? Approaching this question routinely provokes a firestorm of incendiary debate over the existence of God, the supremacy of one faith over another and more importantly, what role government should play in matters of ecclesiastical and social life. Many people have devoted their lives to scholarly research to answer what the faith was of George Washington or whether Thomas Jefferson believed in Jesus Christ. Whole books have been written about the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.
Inherent in the pursuit of determining whether or not a person like Thomas Jefferson believed in Jesus is essentially a search to have permission to pray in schools or an affirmation that believed in Jesus, therefore so should we. But if one looks at the Gospel account of Matth |