Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

That sounds like a creator with a plan to me. Without that statement, all laws are hollow and arbitrary.
You can certainly read it that way, but the text is hardly going out of its way to put God at the center of the action. Do we hold these truths to be God-given? No. Do we hold these truths to be revelatory? No. We hold them to be self-evident.

Compare our Constitution with other charters and documents of the time. It was standard practice to declare, as often as possible, how much God approved of this township or this state. Most such documents would have whole paragraphs extolling the Almighty and declaring that the signers were his favorite people. If anything, our Constitution is barren of the Divine by comparison.

It's true, God does get mentioned, but it's a stretch to take that and conclude that America was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation, especially when so many of the Founders contradict that sentiment.

Which is not to say that America cannot be remade into a Christian nation.