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Episode 526: Was the Constitution Divinely Inspired? with Kaitlyn Schiess

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Is the Constitution a Secular Document?

There's this sense of, i recall some painting somewhere of jesus handing the constitution to thomas jefferso something that matter matis on or something. Yet, this is definitely a very closely held view among christian nationalists. And early in the republic there were a lot of allusions made to ancient israel. So it's ther paralleling the american revolution to the exodus in the old testament. A but my history background also reminds me that when the constitution was first written and then went around the country, needed to be ratified by the 13 states, one of the primary objections to the constitution came from christians because the document was utterly secular. It makes no mention

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