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We have freedom of religion, all faiths are welcome here, but we have separation of church and state to keep the government out of moral issues. That is how our founders set things up based on Jesus' teachings.

Our Declaration of Independence is the most important of all our documents. Along with the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, it is one of the three greatest documents of the English-speaking world. The fifty-six Signers mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in the cause of liberty. The Declaration was inspired by a higher purpose for humanity. No other patriotic document has ever produced such successful, beneficial and far-reaching results.

They were good Christian men led by the holy spirit but the love of money, the root of all evil, was part of it. They wanted to create the land of abundance. They knew ethics would have to rule for it to work. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true north.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. " Lincoln thought, we should pray and worry earnestly whether we are on God's side, on the side of good over evil. Jesus would agree.

@Rick

"I whole heartedly embrace everyone's freedom of religion - Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, etc. BUT, legal religious intolerance in the name of separation of church and state is a 20th century rewrite of history that mocks the roots of this country."

Please provide an example of "legal religious intolerance in the name of separation of church and state" that:
1) Actually happened, with credible documentation.
2) Cannot be described as a lack of public funding or official approval for a particular religion or set of religions.
3) Didn't result in consequences for the person who did it on First Amendment grounds.

While it is certainly possible that a few examples may exist, I still haven't even gotten one from anyone I've asked this to. Note that a lack of enforcement of separation of some other church you don't like and state is a pretty bad example, as it actually supports my argument.

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html