Faith of Our Founders

Senator Tim Kaine came within a shade of being our vice president a decade ago, despite apparently knowing very little about American history. He recently likened "the notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government but come from the Creator" to "what the Iranian government believes." He finds the idea "extremely troubling." He should probably take up his gripe with Thomas Jefferson, who snuck it into the Declaration of Independence, that rascal. Yet Kaine's shameful illiteracy points to something important: Clearly, even our elites—Kaine graduated from Harvard Law School—do not grasp the role of religion and the God of the Bible in the early republic, which is not just to say the quantity of that role (a big one), but its qualities.

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