Because I'm tired of Christians saying that this is a Christian nation...
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. "
-Thomas Jefferson
"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble...."
-Benjamin Franklin
From the Treaty of Tripoli:
"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion"
All right, then, I'll revise this: America had mostly Christians before. It's mostly Christian, but not techinically a Christian nation because we're not a theocracy. But that mean we have to identify ourselves as a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, non-believers, etc. We either say we're mostly Christian, or that we have religious freedom. No need to name every religion in every part of this country. Now, on AG that's a different story. 50/50 split, so if anyone ever wanted to identify this website religiously, we could flip a coin or something.
It is a Christian nation. Like people here have said before, anout 70-80% of the population is Christian. Some of our laws are based off Christian morals (gay marriage, abortion, etc.). And in the South East, just watch some of the campaign adds for people running for office. I remember watching a commercial for Bill Haslem (new governer of Tennesse, the educashin state, lol) and one of his reasons saying he should be elected in was because he's a Christian who goes to church every sunday. Our neighbors were having a custody battle a before I was born, and they chose they crappy lawyer they chose was because he was a Christian. Needless to say, they lost because like I said before, he was a really crappy lawyer from what I heard.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, this is, saddly, a Christian nation.
Oh, I totally disagree. America is a Christian nation. The popular opinion is christian, the president talks about god, the money and the nation is under god. Even through it was not suppose to be a Christian nation and isn't "officially" one, it still is and it shows.
It cannot officially be considered a christian nation because other denominations do exist and are permitted to exist. However due to the fact that a majority of the population is in fact Christian the effect of said religion on government is rather persuasive. You can claim that there is separation of church and state, but how do you enforce it when the policy makers have been raised with Christian values and beliefs? Even if they try to avoid letting their religion interfere, ones upbringing is a rather big part of who you become as an adult, there's no getting around that.
