The letter by Francis Breidenbach states that “There were, of course, some delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 who were Christians.” He implies that they were not majority Christian. The truth is, virtually all of the 55 writers and signers of the US Constitution of 1787 were Christians including twenty seven who had gone to Christian seminary school. 29 were Anglicans, 16 to 18 were Calvinists, 2 were Methodists, 2 were Lutherans, 2 were Roman Catholics, 1 lapsed Quaker and sometimes Anglican, and 1 Deist.

      Mr. Breidenbach mentions John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson , James Madison, and George Washington. He says that these founding fathers of our nation had “belief in the existence of God on purely rational grounds without reliance on revealed religion or religious authority.” My last letter to the editor quoted these men, and there are many more quotes available that refute this fallacy of Mr. Breidenbach.

      Thomas Jefferson did not sign the Constitution and was not present at the 1787 Convention. Though contemporaries questioned Jefferson’s Christianity due to significant doctrinal variances, he considered himself a Christian, and he promoted Christianity through acts of Congress when he was president. In a letter to Charles Thomson 1/9/1816 Mr. Jefferson wrote: “A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian; that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus…Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.”

      Understand that these men that Mr. Breidenbach mis-represents were sophisticated learned men who knew their Bible well. Anyone that knows the writings and teachings of Jesus Christ as well as they did cannot simply accept them as rational doctrine and great recommendations for behavior. Jesus stated clearly on many occasions that He was in fact the one and only Son of God. His saying that means that there are three options for whom He was—the Son of God, a liar, or a man with psychotic delusions. It is not a rational option that Jesus was simply a great guy with a lot of wisdom and terrific ideas.

      In his latest letter, Mr. Breidenbach states, “Ms. Bukacek does not refute any of the facts I recited but attempts to shift the argument…” The truth is, I sent a four page letter to the editor refuting the non-facts, and it was too long so I am having to resort to three separate letters, this being installment number two. I have no trepidation of refuting Mr. Breidenbach. It is extremely easy to refute precepts that are based on lies and irrational thought processes.

      My last letter refuted Mr. Breidenbach’s proclamation that our Founding Fathers opposed involvement of religion in government and policies and activities. The quotes from the Founding Fathers speak for themselves. In this letter I refute his statement that the Founding Father’s were not majority Christians.

      I cannot judge whether Mr. Breidenbach is intentionally spreading untruths (lying), or if he is simply ignorant and has been duped by the various deceptive philosophies deeply infiltrated into our media and educational system. God knows his heart and mind. I am simply setting the historical record straight.

Annie Bukacek MD