This country U.S.A. was founded on the concept of "SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE" meaning religious concepts were not to be used to decide matters of law. Most all the founding fathers of the United States were Deists -- a religious group that has largely disappeared from the USA. Deists has a general belief in some kind of God, but not in any particular scriptural description. Their belief was similar to the contemporary concept of Agnosticism.
"Born Again Evangelical Christianity" began in the USA with the travelling tent revival shows of the 1830's. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence there were no Southern Baptists or any Evangelical Christians in the USA. The central concepts of contemporary "Born Again Christianity" did not exist in 1776. The entire movement has developed and grown in the USA in the past two hundred years. Additionally, the USA is the only country in the world today that has any sizable (or even countable) population of people who describe themselves as Born Again Evangelical Christians. According to some surveys today, as many as 47% of the population of the USA are self-described as Born Again Evangelical Christians.
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William Schaeffer
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