- The New York Times Magazine (14-Feb-2010) has an interesting article called How Christian Were the Founders? It covers the overwhelming influence of Texas on other state school curricula. Ultimately it is spare in its coverage of what the Founders actually thought. What's interesting is how the revolution continues to be important in issues that affect the United States today.
How Christian Were the Founders?
The Americans ... revolted not to create but to maintain their freedom. American society had developed differently from that of the Old World. From the time of the first settlements in the seventeenth century, wrote Samuel Williams in 1794, every thing tended to produce, and to establish the spirit of freedom.
While the speculative philosophers of Europe were laboriously searching their minds in an effort to decide the first principles of liberty, the Americans had come to experience vividly that liberty in their everyday lives.
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States (2011)