{"id":193,"date":"2008-12-26T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-12-26T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T17:08:39","slug":"more-on-the-foundations-of-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/26\/more-on-the-foundations-of-the-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Foundations of the US Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this article today giving more detail on the secular foundations of the US Government. There’s some great information here that continues to help dismiss the absurd claim by the religious right that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Sadly, facts don’t seem to persuade the anti-intellectuals who cannot manage a simple grasp of US history and who refuse to actually read the Constitution and Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article by Carol V. Hamilton on the History News Network<\/a> of George Mason’s University.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/47323.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this article today giving more detail on the secular foundations of the US Government. There’s some great information here that continues to help dismiss the absurd claim by the religious right that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Sadly, facts don’t seem to persuade the anti-intellectuals who cannot manage a simple … <\/p>\n

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