Quote - "I wish we could get politics out of the pulpit, but these guys keep foisting the idea upon us that only one particular group can do the Lord's work..." Many people forget that over 80 percent of the founding Father were Christians and shared thier political views from the pulpit .... Thomas Jefferson even funded a cut down version of the new testament for the indians with federal money... many of the text books up and untill the early 1900s had strong christian references, In the early years of our nation the capital buliding was used for church srvices...... Take time to check it out a starting is a web site called wallbuilders

I think if you did a careful study of church and political history, you would find that the percentage of Christians in the founding fathers was no where close to 80% The fact is that many were Deists. This doesn't make them Christians. Christians very often use inflated numbers such as this to advance their theory that Christianity and politics should be melded. There are many quotes out there also which are Christian in nature and which have been attributed to founding fathers. Careful scrutiny has shown that many have been attributed without factual connection to the founding fathers, but it's been convenient to link the founders with the quotes because it makes them appear more Christian in nature than they actually were. (The web is a great place to chase down quotes and their basis in historical fact.} The fact that certain founding fathers had deep Christian convictions doesn't make the mixing of politics and religion something which Christ condoned or approved. The issue of church and politics has become a very hot issue in our time. Many Christians see the separation of church and state as a pernicious, devious, and insidious method to exclude Christianity from our society. But if politics and Christianity were supposed to be mixed as they have been in our society, why did Christ never commend His followers to use politics as a tool to advance His kingdom on this earth? For a better argument in regard to this matter, it might be helpful to read "The Myth of a Christian Nation" by pastor Greg Boyd. Boyd is a dedicated Christian committed to maintaining the purity of Christ's message apart from political and sociological overtones which can corrupt it.