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Jul 30, 2002

Founders Created Christian Nation

Editor, Times-Dispatch: 

Steven Linas' letter calling Ross Mackenzie narrow-minded and sophomoric reminds me of Jesus' statement about removing the beam from your own eye before removing the splinter from another's eye.

Critics ought to check out history before saying we aren't a Christian nation. While it is true we have become a secular nation in the past 50 years, it is also true that we were known as a Christian nation for more than 150 years. Even the U.S. Supreme Court said, in Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S. in 1892, "This is a Christian nation."

Not one of our Founding Fathers ever suggested that we should be a theocracy, but it would be hard to find one of them who didn't believe they were establishing a Republic based upon the principles found nowhere else but in the Old and New Testaments. Even Benjamin Franklin said on June 28, 1787 (quoting from the Bible), "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." David Barton's Original Intent details the facts. 

David Coburn. 

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