“America should be governed according to biblical law for the benefit of believers.” [FN78]
That’s what Sean Feucht, a self-avowed Christian nationalist said at one stop of his “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour in Oklahoma, April, 2023. Indy’s host for Feucht: 1/13

Micah Beckwith, who would be IN’s Lt Gov about two years later. On 3/18/23, he posted about Feucht: “Him and I are very similar and saw the assault happening ... on our religious freedoms.”
Beckwith has said the U.S. was founded as a “Christian country.” 2/13

As this country’s charter of government, the Constitution should clearly state who we are, but:
1) Substance:
a) Neither “God” nor “Jesus Christ” appears in the Constitution. 3/13

b) “Religion” is mentioned once: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” [FN79]
c) Article VI was adopted with little discussion. [FN80] 4/13

2) Procedures: The Convention started late. [FN81] The record indicates, by inference, that no group prayer or other ritual occurred at the Philadelphia convention. On June 28, with delegates stymied, 5/13

Benjamin Franklin moved that “henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings ... every morning...” Hamilton & others objected: “however proper such a resolution might have been at the beginning of the Convention.” [FN82] The delegates 6/13

“voted to adjourn for the day ... The matter was never brought up again.” [FN83]
3) Other indicators. When delegates signed the Constitution, to be sent to Congress and then the States, the date was noted “in the Year of Our Lord...” It’s more than a stretch 7/13

to say this proves the Framers “America should be governed according to biblical law for the benefit of believers.” [FN84] That phrase is not considered to be a part of the Constitution. [FN84] This phrase is a commonplace today. 8/13

Signing a document that says it is “in the year of our lord” did not magically create a theocratic regime with the keys to the castle given to “Christian” nationalists so they could govern you under biblical law for their benefit. Next up: State conventions. 9/13

Footnotes:
FN78. Rolling Stone, 4/21/23.
FN79. U.S. Const., Art. VI.
FN80. Federal Convention, 5 Elliot’s Debates, p. 498. 10/13

FN81. “The day appointed ... was the 2d Monday in May, [1787;] but the 25th of that month was the first day upon which a sufficient number of members appeared to constitute a representation of a majority of the states.” Federal Convention, 1 Elliot’s Debates p. 120. 11/13

FN82. Federal Convention, 5 Elliot’s Debates, p. 254.
FN83. Isaac Kramnick and R Laurence Moore, “The Godless Constitution,” (2005), p. 34.
FN84. Id., FN78. 12/13

FN85. The official Constitution’s text ends before these extra words of attestation that were not ratified by the state conventions in 1787-88. Akhil Reed Amar, professor, Yale School of Law, “The Constitution and the Candidates///” The Daily Beast, 8/19/12. 13/13