Very interesting. I'll have to check it out if I get a chance. I'm fresh off The Godless Constitution, of course.

I think it is one of those cases where attempts to paint a pluralistic society (even back then) as uniform are doomed to fail. It might not have been the "Hindoos" and "Mohatmens" and Buddhists you have today, but there were Quakers and Puritans and a few feared Catholics and even atheists back then among the Founders. They bickered. They argued. They knew we would. They largely tried, IMO, to make it so that people would be free to believe as they wish without getting a lot of runaround from others or their government. I think any idea that we are a "Christian" nation immediately has to follow with asking which version of Christianity do they mean? Certainly not the rewritten, miracle-less Jesus of Thomas Jefferson! LOL