practicality
It is very simple: The U.S. was not founded as a christian nation, just look up the Treaty of Tripoli. The founding fathers were deists (a god which started everything, but, is not personal). Frankly the founders were very opposed to the christian ideology and felt that it was intellectual enslavement. So, all of you christian idealoges keep your dog.... ma for your own repentance. Most of us were born OK the first time. Leave the bible in the church pews, not the congressional halls. Keep the dogma out of my pragma, it tastes like ****.