secularist debunk

Within the secularist movement it is a common argument that because the word God is not found anywhere in the United states Constitution the framers did not want religion to influence public policy nor that God/religion was a decisive factor in the formation of the Constitution of the United States.

It is a fact that the WORD God is not found in the US Constitution. However that by no means substantiates that God is not found in the US constitution.

A simplistic response to the above assumption is that the framers of our Constitution did not want America to become a theocracy defined: (a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.) They did not believe in a theocratic state. The framers of our Constitution did not want clergymen to pick Presidents and set government policy. This in no way, however, is to say that they saw no role for God or religion in government.

To flush out the flaw in a secularist thought process, as stated in my first paragraph, we have to turn to science. Most people would not consider Charles Darwin, the author of “On the Origin of Species” 1859, to be someone important in order to understand the U.S. Constitution. The fact is it is Darwin that designed the framework for how secularists see the constitution. In fact a case could be made that he has had a greater or equal impact on the Constitution as the delegates at the constitutional convention! The reason is simple, Darwin changed the way many see the Constitution. The dominant legal philosophy in the United States today is secularism. To the secularist the existence of God is irrelevant when understanding government and therefore you read the Constitution in a way that is totally foreign to its framers. It is important to remember that when the Constitution was written, the only possible explanation for the existence of the Universe was special creation. Therefore, all of the delegates at the Philadelphia convention were creationists of one form or another. Secularism defined: (the belief that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political activities of a country) did not even exist in 1787. So to assume that because the WORD God can not be found in our constitution we are to conclude the framers never intended God or religion to be an influence government is fundamentally incorrect.

Generally, the word "God" will appear in two places in most constitutions, in the preamble and the religion clauses in the bill of rights. For example, the word "God" appears in the preamble in eight state constitutions. In four states, the "Supreme Ruler of the Universe" is used instead. By far, the most popular divine reference in a preamble is "Almighty God." This appears in the preamble of 30 state constitutions. So we must assume that based on secularist theory of if the word God can not be found in United states Constitution the framers did not want religion to influence public policy nor that religion was a decisive factor in the formation of the Constitution of the United States, the opposite is true, meaning that based on the above facts concerning the word God in 30 states preamble, they all acknowledge and accept the importance of God and religion as an influencer on government and policy. Secularists hang their hat on being of an open minded persuasion. If that is reality than they must not turn a blind eye to what the framers said themselves:

George Washington’s Proclamation to the American people after congress completed it’s work on the 1st amendment: "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor”

John Adams: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Charles Carroll - signer of the Declaration of Independence
" Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."

You can not summize that the absence of the word God is to conclude that God and religion were not instrumental in the construction of the constitution and our government as evidence by the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Bible, as he read Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”