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Actually, that is not true.
The Founders' understanding of "freedom of religion" was to prevent one particular sect of Christianity from being the official religion of the state.
The word Christian or Christianity is nowhere in our founding documents. Yes the first step was to prevent a specific sect from being the official religion but our founding fathers were very thorough and meticulous and had they intended it to include only Christianity they would have said that.
True, and that is why you have to read other things they wrote, so that you can understand the full context.
Ben Franklin did not want to allow Germans into the USA. He thought it should be only for English. Both ethnicities are Christian, and White. Actually, the English are Germanic people, as well. So, why the disagreement?
All Founding Fathers were some form of Christian, unless you want to include Thomas Paine (which I do include), who was an atheist.
When Muslim pirates were killing and enslaving White Europeans and Americans off the Barbary Coast of Africa, Thomas Jefferson met with one of the Islamic leaders and asked why they were doing it. He was told that Islam allows it, so they do it. Jefferson was shocked by that response, and so he went to war against them (the words of the Marine Corps hymn include a passage about that era).
In 1790, the First Congress (just 1 year after the Constitution was officially ratified) created the first immigration act. The act said that only WHITE people could become US citizens. They were not talking about Muslims or Hindus.
There are numerous writings we can point to that indicate that the USA Founding Fathers intended that the White Christian was who they considered to be "our Posterity" in the Constitution's preamble.
The idea that anyone else would ever become an American was such a ridiculous concept, that they had no reason to be more specific. It was understood by all.
It does not matter whether you like it or not.
It is a FACT.