Explanation: For all the many flaws of the 'big 7' Founding Fathers, 6/7 of them were firmly secularist. 2 were not Christians in the modern sense (Jefferson, Franklin), two may not have been Christians (Washington, Madison), two were secular Christians (Hamilton, Adams), and only one advocated for involvement of the Christian faith in public affairs (John Jay).

In fact, for several generations after the American Revolution, Christian fundamentalists in the USA regularly condemned the foundation of the country by 'heathens' as wicked, and the USA itself as an aberration.

It would seem once they saw an opportunity to worm their way into power, they reversed their opinion on the American polity.

Nowadays, church and state remain formally separate in the USA, but in practice, there is a rapidly eroding barrier between the two due to the support of a majority of voting Americans for conservative and fascist shitheads.

At this point I have to do this

" However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. "

George Washington - Farewell Address | Saturday, September 17, 1796

If GW were alive today questions about Church v State would probably be way down on his list of "WTF is going on here?!".

I mean the BoR applying to the States, individual taxes, the stupid amount of power that the Federal Government has, the utter disregard of the 9th and 10th Amendments, our large standing Army...all of these things would be of WAY more concern and confusion to him.

ICE throws Washington into an unmarked vehicle and deports him. No birth certificate, technically a British Subject, and threatens the current regime.

Hey George can you clarify the 2nd amendment?

George Washington, looking up from the trump-epstein files: Give the people manpads

He'd still be looking for his wife's favorite escaped slave. (A real person)

If Washington were alive today he would say "The Moon? You mean the big round thing in the sky? The fucking moon? People went there? They walked on it? On the fucking moon?"

Wait till they hear about Jesus. Dude was a communist hippie.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. "

Washington: "Called it."

Probably close to reality:

Washington if he were actually alive today: "My that's a fine Ryebourbon industry we've got going"

Edit: He made rye not bourbon

Pretty sure that liberals (in the center-left popular definition) haven't been using"woke" in ages, since the term has been successfully muddied and vilified by conservatives.

If Washington was alive today he’d ask how all those slaves were walking around in public. You don’t get much more non-woke than a slave owner.

And for anyone who cites his writing about how bad it made him feel, imagine how the humans he held in bondage that was enforced by multiple layers of brutal violence felt, and reflect that for Washington’s purported struggle he somehow never landed on “grant them their freedom.”

Washington: wakes up in 2026
mad scientists: Mr. President, what do think of this modern era!?
Washington: where are my wife and children!?

Separating church and state is so woke.

GW owned slaves, so idk where this glorification is coming from.

I keep spotting new deranged details, like the “republican” hat being slightly wider to accommodate the text.

I bet he would ask about his slaves.