‘One nation under God’: Trump announces event to rededicate America

Guests watch a Fourth of July fireworks display over the National Mall, Thursday, July 4, 2024, from the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Oliver Contreras)

A good number of the Founders of the United States were, in fact, Christian. Some were not.

But all of them embedded in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution a long list of spiritual references.

For example, the Declaration references, “Laws of nature and of Nature’s God,” and “Endowed...