I thought about what you said. Are you going back to Locke or what kind of liberalism are we talking about?
It does seem that several of the American founders were not really devout Christians. Either deists (and freemasons) or "Christian-lite". Jefferson took the supernatural bits out of his bible. I wouldn't say he had contempt for Christianity but he probably thought the stories were a little silly.
imo it goes further back to the "enlightenment" when the focus shifted away from how best to serve God to the idea that we don't need to consider God and our purpose was to use our reason in understanding His creation.
Even if it was considered a given, in those times, that both the reason and the creation came from Him. That mindset shift is what eventually lead to the pure materialism we are poisoned with today.
I thought about what you said. Are you going back to Locke or what kind of liberalism are we talking about?
It does seem that several of the American founders were not really devout Christians. Either deists (and freemasons) or "Christian-lite". Jefferson took the supernatural bits out of his bible. I wouldn't say he had contempt for Christianity but he probably thought the stories were a little silly.
imo it goes further back to the "enlightenment" when the focus shifted away from how best to serve God to the idea that we don't need to consider God and our purpose was to use our reason in understanding His creation.
Even if it was considered a given, in those times, that both the reason and the creation came from Him. That mindset shift is what eventually lead to the pure materialism we are poisoned with today.