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Depends on how you think the bible was created.

Most of the important founding fathers were actually deists.... BUT they were mostly Christian Deists.

That is... deists who denied Jesus' godliness but accepted his teachings as truth.  It's funny that someone above tried to use the Jefferson Bible above as an example that he wasn't Christian... when in reality it showed his belief in jesus' teachings were particularly strong, since he went to the trouble of rewriting the whole thing.  Cutting out specifically what jesus said.  Worth noting, after his death it strated being published, and was given to any new Congressmen who joined congress for a while.   So it very clearly wasn't some distatestful heretical work to most of the christians at the time... I can only image the outrage too if the government gave that book to entering congressment to read now adays as well.  Since people continue to misrepresent what seperation between church and State meant. (Only that there would be no laws supporting one religion over another.)

The question isn't so much "How do you think the constitution was created" So much as... "How do you think the bible was created."

That the constitution was created with a heavy influence from Christianity is beyond debate, hell everything everybody does in the west is still heavily influenced by Christianity, even those who have joined other religions or are full out atheists.

General western philosophy and our moral code come directly from it.

So, though only way to agree with the author is if I think it happened in another way. Which is, the bible as constructed which wasn't a real thing until long after Jesus' death was constructed as a bonding ethos for one nation.

Which arguably, it was, the current bible more or less coming together by Roman decree for Christianity to "figure it out" and get rid of all other teachings except for a core book.