Stephen Wolfe, author of the book, "The Case for Christian Nationalism," appeared on the "CrossPolitic" podcast earlier this week where he faulted the framers of the Constitution for not including an explicit acknowledgement of "the Lordship of Christ" when crafting the document.
"The perfect political covenant would be one that explicitly acknowledges the Lordship of Christ," he said. "Any nation can have a legitimate covenant and order itself according to it, but in order for it to be actually complete and perfected and proper, it would explicitly acknowledge the Lordship of Christ."
"I've always say it was a complete mistake that the Founders didn't do that," Wolfe added. "There were objections before it was ratified that said, 'Yes, it should have, they should acknowledge Christ,' and they just didn't want to go back and go through the the struggle to produce a new one."
While there were undoubtedly those who complained that the Constitution contained no mention of Jesus when it was completed in September, 1787, those complaints were obviously ignored as the Constitution was ratified within months of its release without any changes. Even with the addition of the Bill of Rights in 1789, no effort was made to include any mention of Christianity and instead an explicit prohibition against the government ever establishing a religion was added.
So while Wolfe and other far-right Christian nationalists may think this was "a complete mistake," they represent a distinctly fringe minority view.
