Who can deny that we are a Christian nation?

Question

I'm fully for secular government, but I often here people claiming that this nation is not culturally Christian. How does one arrive at that conclusion?

Answer 1

This nation's culture is based on the values set forth by the Christian faith, and I haven't seen too many people deny that fact; I've seen them rebel against it, though.

Answer 2

"Culturally Christian"? Sure. Lots of people buying Chritmas trees (a bizarre Christian-Pagan hybrid symbol).

But that is very different from saying we are officially a "Christian nation."

We are also culturally "English-speaking" ... and many states are passing laws making English the "official language".

Are you saying that we should do the same with Christianity? Of course not (or at least I hope not).

To put it another way ... when one says this is "a democratic nation" that means that democracy is a unifying concept to *all* Americans. This nation, without democracy, is a different nation. And if you don't believe in democracy, then it's hard to call yourself an American. By those criteria, this is NOT a "Christian nation."

We don't define a nation by its *culture*, because culture can change. We were once culturally white. We are no longer.

Instead, we define a nation by its *Constitution* ... the things that will *never* change (unless we alter the constitution). The things we enshrine as the permanent, and universal things that define our nation.

Answer 3

Well, the Founders denied it. Most of them were Deists, and if you read their letters and essays, they made it clear that the didn't consider the US a Christian nation. As if it weren't enough that the word "God" doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution.

Also, the Supreme Court, going back at least 130 years. See Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878).

But the best example is the Treaty of Tripoli (1796), passed by Congress within the lifetime of the Founders. Just a handful of years after the Constitution was written, Congress said that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion". (Article 11, link below).

So, while few can argue that percentage-wise most of the population does claim to follow some branch of Christianity, that doesn't make the country Christian.

Answer 4

I can't deny it, our country is 2/3 Christian. Our founding fathers were Christian. The original colonists were Christian. I personally am a Christian.

Answer 5

What politicians are trying to say is "well, we have a christian back ground, but we still have no national belief, and the god we say in the Pledge of Allegiance is all kind of gods mankind can think of (Allah, Zeus, whatsoever)." I think this is a ridiculous explaination, but I do like it when we don't have a national belief. Does god even exist, anyway?

Answer 6

I've seen it done by revisionists who begin the conversation by declaring that the framers were atheists.

BS and Balderdash!

Coragryph needs to go visit the Jefferson Memorial. Clearly our framers assumed a "moral majority."

Answer 7

I can, look at the way people live their lives, nothing Christian about this country.

Answer 8

Liberal judges ruling against things Christian!!!! Can't display the Ten Commandments in front of a courthouse )although our laws are based on them), no prayer in schools, or at football games, and even graduation ceremonies!!!! There are plenty of examples!!!!!

Answer 9

Our govornment was based on laws written by christian leaders.
Since then,we have become so liberal,that we have let queers,& sex addicts run our country! How else do men who e-mail young boys for sex,get in the White House?
How do our presidents get blowjobs in their office?
We are not a christian nation anymore,just a nation with christians in it!

Answer 10

It's a free country, Too bad the Christians always seem to feel that they have the right to structure everything according to their beliefs. It's not right.