
- When the amendments to the Constitution were written, almost everybody in the United States was Christian
- Most people saw the First Amendment--"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" 4--as being an insult to the church and that "the injury done to the cause of Christ ...was irreparable" as the churches were "cut...loose from dependence on state support [and thrown] wholly on their own resources and on God"11