The Declaration of Independence

Note that the brave souls that signed the Declaration of Independence were fully aware if their cause were lost, then their necks would find the hang man's noose. With that in mind, notice that the "CREATOR" is the center piece of authority and protection within this document.

Note how the Signers of the Declaration of Independence begin the paragraph that just precedes their signatures:

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions".

That Supreme Judge of the world is God Almighty, not the secular humanistic morally relativistic mind of man. Let us define “rectitude.”

NOUN: 1. Moral uprightness; righteousness. 2. The quality or condition of being correct in judgment. 3. The quality of being straight. (Houghton Mifflin Dictionary)

The primary definition relates to “moral uprightness” or “righteousness”. These are Christian terms derived from the Bible – the Word of God. Righteousness meant right standing with God.

Religion might have been Deist or personal but it was definitely Christian based. The morality of the Christian Bible was the intention and design of the Founding Fathers regardless of the Christian pluralism of personal faith they practiced. Only the blindest eyes of an atheist or the fears of an alternate religion would fail to see Christian influences on the Founding Fathers.