What do you believe? Is and/or was the United States of America a ever a Christian nation?

Question

I say No; that the good old US of A is not a Christian nation.

It never was a such a nation.

Answer 1

I agree. That may be the majority relegion, but we are not a christian nation. That would like me saying that since whites are in the majority we are a white nation. That statement would not fly for one second so why would the relegion one go.

Answer 2

Well in the scrictist sense no. If you look at the US Consitution you'll see that it never once mentions and Gods. Mostly because the people who wrote it wanted to keep the US neutral toward religion. In fact the US was actually founded by a combination of Atheists, Christians, Agnostics, Freemasons, and Deists. Our first two presidents (Washington and Adams) even stated in the treaty of Tripoli (Semper Fi) that "The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." The Christian influence in America really began as a wave of religous and political immigrants entered America from Europe. These people did come from countries that were in fact run by Christian principles. However, at no point did the US ever become a Christian nation.

Answer 3

We were founded as a Christian nation. I'll prove it.

Instead of listing all of the documentary evidence that the Founding Fathers left us that show us they got most of their ideas on the Constitution from the Bible, I'll just show you a case that says it.

In 1892, there was a case before the U.S. Supreme Court called "Holy Trinity Church vs. United States." The resultant opinion of the Supreme Court was that this nation was in fact founded as a Christian nation. They stated "These and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." And this was just a hundred years after the nation's founding.

Naturally, atheists had a hissy fit, and sought to replace the justices over the decades, and by the end of World War II, had the justices they needed to whittle away at that statement.

Answer 4

Was it a Christian nation, meaning that Christianity was the official religion, and everybody had to believe it or else? No.

Was it a Chrsitian nation, meaning that Christian leaders ran the nation by hearing the will of God and enforcing it on the people? No.

Was it a Christian nation , meaning that Christian morals and beliefs played an important part in shaping the nation, establishing its laws, determining its government, etc. Yes.

Christian beliefs, and a desire for both political and religious freedom, played an important part in the formation of the United States, whether people like it or not. We need to be careful that in our attempt today to erase any mention of God or Christianity from public life, that we do not end up rewriting our history.

Answer 5

I beleive that the country was started on Christian values and beliefs which was the main purpose for the pilgrams to come here in the first place, to have religious freedom. However I think now the country is for the more part degenarte and apostate, yet there are still a lot of great Christian and Non Christian people with high morals. So yes at one point it was, but not so much anymore.

Answer 6

Actually, most of the founding fathers were either Christian, agnostic, or. as in the case of Thomas Jefferson followers of their own spiritual path. I won't go so far as to say the United States today is a "Christian" nation, but the dominant society is certainly based on Judeo-Christian norms. Happily, though, persons with minority belief systems can practice their religions freely here; that is the real beauty of the United States.

Answer 7

As an beforehand poster already stated, a variety of of the 'non secular' founding fathers were not Christians- they believed in an inactive God that doesn't intrude with the international. (The Antithesis of modern-day Evangelical concept) As an aside, Einstein changed into also a Deist, although Christians frequently declare him with the intention to legitimize the declare that technological know-how and faith at the instant are not together unique.

Answer 8

The United States was founded and settled by mostly Christian people. (Jefferson, Franklin, and Thomas Payne were not Christians)

Some of the founding fathers including Washington were Masons, but most were not into the more exoteric aspects of Masonry. Washington did not go to a lodge in his later years.

The hard-core Masons and Rosicrucians based their view that America was the new Atlantis envisioned by Plato and Sir Francis Bacon.

Answer 9

It was based on christian religous freedom ( it is obvoius from the past that it did not give complete freedom to all religions,even chrsitain ones.

The declaration of Independence references God, as does the Bill of Rights of the US and most states.

Our money was coined with "in God we Trust"

Most major colleges were all Christain in nature at the begining.

Congress begins with prayer

So yes it was formed as a Christian nation ( expect it did not allow the Anglican church to be in the US during the revolutionary war) and almost all of its base laws are moral in value with Christian values.

Answer 10

Not really. They like to think it is but A LOT of people that put down 'Christian' as an answer to their 'faith' question on the Census are not religious at all.

The ranks of Non believers is growing day by day.
People are getting over the stigma of the "A" label.

Answer 11

No, it has some Christian concepts embedded in the Constitution and the Ammendments but it is not founded under the Word or any religious scripture.

The Constitution is the primary doctrine for the US.