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False. It was founded on separation of church and state.

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This is woefully simplistic & glosses over actual history.

At the time our country's founding, There were the Puritans in Massachusetts, the Quakers in Pennsylvania, thr Catholics in Maryland, and the Anglicans in Virginia.
Which national church could our founding fathers establish when no single religious denomination held a majority across the colonies??
For the federal union to survive, it was politically impossible to establish a national church without alienating large portions of the population and causing immediate civil fracture. Leaders like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson argued that religious peace could only be achieved by putting all CHRISTIAN denominations on an equal footing.

Remember, in late 18th-century America, the population was overwhelmingly of European Christians. There were very few Jewish communities (concentrated in a few port cities like Newport and New York) but there were no Muslims, Buddists, Hindus, etc.

Furthermore, as you know, or at least should know, the American Revolution was fought for our independence from England.
Since the 1530's when Henry VIIi broke w/ Rome & established the Church of England, every other Christian denomination were persecuted in various ways over time.

For instance, ?The Toleration Act of 1689 granted dissenters of the Chirch of England the right to worship publicly if they registered their meeting houses and swore oaths of allegiance. This ended the worst of the 17th-century jailings.
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However, despite the Toleration Act, dissenters still faced severe civil friction throughout the 1700s. Like Catholics, they were barred from holding public office, municipal positions, or graduating from major universities unless they took communion in the Church of England.

?All British subjects, regardless of whether they were Anglican, Baptist, Quaker, or Catholic, were legally required to pay tithes (taxes) to support their local parish church of the Church of England. Dissenters deeply resented paying to fund a religious institution they didn't belong to.

Therefore, the separation between church & state was to prevent the establishment of a national church. Because again, they couldn't select a Christian denomination w/o alienating the members of all the other Protestant denominations.