Guest Blackcatter:

I think you have brought up an important point. Those of us who feel there is no 'one way' have more in common, though of different original backgrounds, then those who grow up steeped in inerrancy, whatever their faiths.

Maybe that's why God has arranged that there are so many faiths. So we can figure out for ourselves that no one path is the only path.

And getting back to the Founding Fathers (and their wives) that is why in the Declaraion of Independence the invocation is to "the laws of Nature and of Nature's God..." which belie the evangelical rightists of our current era.

The Founding Fathers were creatures of The Enlightenment, and were a well read, well briefed group of very bright folk. They were not eager to return to the dark ages of religious orthodoxy.

No rule by mullahs!