The non-stop secularist propaganda may have convinced us that our Founding Fathers — these lamentably male and pasty non-ethnics — were, thankfully, hard-headed rationalists and secularists as well if one could strip away the temporal cultural trappings of the day (which modern historians have). M. Stanton Evans offers an inconvenient 1778 directive by George Washington [What if the following had been said by our current George W.?]: "The commander in chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock, in each brigade which has a Chaplain . . . . To the distinguished character of a patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of a Christian." . . . Etc.

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