To the objective reader, there are four blatantly obvious references to the God of the Bible in the Declaration of Independence of the United States. They are as follows, with emphasis being mine:
1st paragraph
“…the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature’s God entitle them…
2nd paragraph
“…that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights…”
Last paragraph
“…appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world…”
“…with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence…”
If Buddha or Allah had been mentioned four times in such a foundational document of any other nation, would anyone who read that document deny that the authors would have expected all readers to assume that they would be a Buddhist or an Islamic nation in principle and practice?
But this document does not simply reference the God of the Bible. Rather, the founders showed in the first quote reproduced above that they based the colonies’ right of freedom from tyranny on the natural laws established by that God.
The second quote reveals that they based the equality of every individual and the very rights they claimed for each citizen of this new republic on the fact that they were created by the God of the Bible (which fact later helped to end slavery).
The third quote reveals that they both recognized, and called upon the authority of the God of the Bible rather than any earthly court for justification of their claim to freedom.
The fourth quote makes it very clear that those who signed their names to this document pledging as they put it, “our Lives our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”, trusted that their hope for realizing independence was totally reliant upon this same God.
Surely you agree, this would be an odd way to begin the establishment of a totally secular nation.