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::::First off, the resolution you refer to took place during the Continental Congress, the entity that existed before the Constitution was written and ratified, so this is not an example of the actions of the government the U.S. government founders finally agreed to.  That aside, this was a committee recommendation that Congress vote on importing Bibles instead of printing them - in short, it was a committee vote to approve the next step in the approval process.  Also, the whole effort was in response to price gouging of Bibles during the war, not because the Continental Congress felt it should be in the business of issuing Bibles to the citizens as policy.  The committee vote on the motion was close – seven states voted yes; six voted no.  A second motion was then made to pass a resolution to import the Bibles, but this was postponed and never brought up again.  No Bibles were imported.  Will devout Christians state that they and their fellow Americans live under God in a Christian nation?  Of course, but that doesn't make it a fact, least of all to their fellow citizens and patriots who don't happen to be Christian.  I still retain an open mind to being shown evidence of the actual founding, in law, of the United States of America as a Christian nation.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 10:55, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

::::First off, the resolution you refer to took place during the Continental Congress, the entity that existed before the Constitution was written and ratified, so this is not an example of the actions of the government the U.S. government founders finally agreed to.  That aside, this was a committee recommendation that Congress vote on importing Bibles instead of printing them - in short, it was a committee vote to approve the next step in the approval process.  Also, the whole effort was in response to price gouging of Bibles during the war, not because the Continental Congress felt it should be in the business of issuing Bibles to the citizens as policy.  The committee vote on the motion was close – seven states voted yes; six voted no.  A second motion was then made to pass a resolution to import the Bibles, but this was postponed and never brought up again.  No Bibles were imported.  Will devout Christians state that they and their fellow Americans live under God in a Christian nation?  Of course, but that doesn't make it a fact, least of all to their fellow citizens and patriots who don't happen to be Christian.  I still retain an open mind to being shown evidence of the actual founding, in law, of the United States of America as a Christian nation.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 10:55, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

==No, they did not intend to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==

==No, they did not intend to establish the U.S.A. as "One nation under God"==