Especially when some of the greatest Christian thinkers - Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Dante, Pope Benedict XVI - all stressed constant evaluation of your faith. John Paul II even wrote one of his encyclicals, Fides et Ratio - Faith and Reason, on the view that religion was only viable when it conformed to reason. After all, if God designed man to follow Him, then He would have granted us the intellects to do so.
That being said, the founders were largely deist, not Christian. But much of the same reasoning applies.
Especially when some of the greatest Christian thinkers - Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Dante, Pope Benedict XVI - all stressed constant evaluation of your faith. John Paul II even wrote one of his encyclicals, Fides et Ratio - Faith and Reason, on the view that religion was only viable when it conformed to reason. After all, if God designed man to follow Him, then He would have granted us the intellects to do so.
That being said, the founders were largely deist, not Christian. But much of the same reasoning applies.