The Godless Constitution: How The Constitution Created A Secular States

“The Godless Constitution” illustrates how the Constitution created a secular state. The author states an argument upon the idea of “separation and church”. The argument relates to the point that the creation of a godless constitution was not an act of irreverence, rather it was an act of confidence in religion. The founders of this nation wanted to regard the mixing and politics. Therefore, government matters is not neutral in religious and moral matters. The authors intend to discover America’s history of religious sovereignty and focus on their government principles. The book is written from a perspective of people who are interested in determining the reasoning behind the “no religious test” not founded in the Constitution and how that effects religion and politics. The book opens up with a serious question at hand, Is America a Christian Nation? Evidence from the beginning of the book shows that religion should stay away from the political spheres, as America was founded as a Christian state. Arguments arise in the eighteenth century as whether or not the U.S. Constitution was a godless document. Key figures such as Royer Williams, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson are …show more content…
The effort to get the God and Christianity into the Constitution and views from significant people and their arguments is revealed. A positive aspect of this book, is that is does a great job relating the historical context of the American principles of religion and government aspects. A negative aspect of the book, is that it relies too much of the topics of religion and politics, instead of it could of did a better job of expanding the subject. The founding fathers did not make constructional provisions for the national government to instruct its citizens in the matters of moral and religious conscience, for they only wanted the government to be godless not