Is America one of the last true Christian countries left in the world?

Question

Just look at the state of the world today. Is America the last hope for Christianity?

Glad to see you people understand the question.
NOT.
I didnt say that America is a all Christian country and that the American government considers Christianity as our religion.
My question is are we one of the last few countries on earth that practice christianity. At times it seems that way.

How many times do i have to ADD THIS DETAIL.
I am not saying that Christianity is the official religion of America-or that Christianity is the government sponsored religion. In calling America a Christian country, i mean a country where many people (the majority of religious people-which is FACT) follow the Christian religion.
Do any of you bother to read the questions, or do you just read the first few lines and respond without knowing what you are talking about?

Answer 1

The last no one can say, but it has to be one of the last it can't be anything else.

Answer 2

Actually, the US is not a christian country. There are plenty of other religions being practiced here. Right now, christianity is the majority but there is no reason why it will stay the majority. There are people converting from christianity all the time. There are immigrants coming into the country with different religions all the time. Being non-christian is not frowned upon anymore in the US. It is possible for another religion to change the balance in the next few decades.

ADDED
Are you backtracking?

Your question was:
" Is America one of the last true Christian countries left in the world? "

You question states that America is a christian country. Now you are saying that you did not say that. You say that what you were asking was if America was one of the last countries where christianity is practiced. Guess what, it is practiced in plenty of countries. I would say a majority of them. It may not be the predominant religion of all of those countries but it is practiced in those countries.

However, you are trying to change your question to something different. The people who have been answering have been answering your question as you originally stated it.

Answer 3

You have three answers from people who seem determined to be very loud, but not very informative. Religion has always been controversial in America. We are a nation founded by Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, and entrepreneurs. Religion has been used to bolster slavery and to condemn it. It has been used in support of the boldest Progressive initiatives, and some of the most retrograde moves known to the country. We have been called the City on the Hill, the light of the world, and the great Satan and worse. We are now living in time in which anxiety and dislocation are almost inherent in modern life. For the first time in world history, we have the capacity to destroy the world and every living thing. That would be the result of a nuclear war. At the same time, we are accumulating knowledge at rates unimaginable to prior generations. Children go to middle school with graphing calculators that have more computing power than everything aboard the Apollo space capsules. Medically, open heart surgery has gone from earth-shattering news in the mid-1950s to something so common-place that the patient can often go home from a multiple bypass in four days or less. We have the genetic code for human DNA. In such an environment of constant change, with the potential for many things to go horribly wrong, many people are upset and frightened. Instead of seeing the potential in these many developments, they see old truths being upset, and they become frightened. Some religious people feel this way. In the constant change that goes on around us, they see the rising threat of chaos. And they tend to interpret this as God abandoning America (or wherever they are -- foreign clergy feel the same way). But now let me switch from being a historian/sociologist to being a religious person. Where in the Bible does God say that his love is limited? Where is the parable in which Jesus teaches that someone who goes this far or that far will be abandoned? Where does it say that God will quit answering those who call on His name? One of the lessons that comes out of the Hebrew Bible can be summed up this way: an anointing can never be rescinded. It can never be taken away. (After all, that would imply that God made a mistake in giving it initially.) This is what I think, and that is what you asked for. I also think that when people talk about religion, for or against it, and they become shrill, they miss the point. Religion is not about shouting and screaming and noise; religion is mostly an art of dedicated and disciplined listening.

Answer 4

Hard to say, as one, I don't considerate a christian country. I am an atheist, and just as much a citizen of this country as any other person of religion.

Also, we tend to forget that we are a pretty young country. We are only 250+/- years old. The Roman Empire, Ottoman empire, Greeks, etc, were around for much longer, and still they fell. So, honestly, there is no guarantee that the US that we know is going to be around forever.

And, as pointed out earlier, while christianity may be the majority at this point an time, immigration will balance these things out someday.

Answer 5

No , if you look at all the attacks on Christianity in the USA, attack on the word Christmas or its use, Hollywood making Christians the evil sect, among others. No America is not the only country in the world that do these things, but it is not what should be considered a Christian country

Answer 6

Just to clarify here, America never was a "Christain Country". The founding fathers were diests, something that would resemble today's agnostics. They professed extreme skepticism of organized religion:

"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth." --- Thomas Jefferson, from "Notes on Virginia"

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." --- Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?" --- John Adams, letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816

"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both there (England) and in New England."--- Benjamin Franklin

Examples go on and on. The founders of this country specifically made this a secular nation so that its people would not suffer from persecution by religious authorities.

Now since we cleared that up, America is a nation with a Christain majority as are most latin american countries, european and some african nations as well. I have no reason to think that this will change anytime soon, but who knows, religions evolve and so do beliefs of humans.

Answer 7

It does not matter even if there are no "Christian Countries" Christianity is not dependent on countries for its survival, look at the New Testament, at that time there were no "Christian countries." Anyway there are several countries in Africa that are far more christian then us.

Answer 8

Like Christianity is going to SAVE the world from anything! I think religion is inherintly evel. It gives people this idea that somehow they are better than others because they believe in a god. I put my hope in a new party running country well before I hold my breath for your god to do anything.

Answer 9

What state of the world? Europe is much better off with secularism

And the USA is NOT in any way a Christian country. It's in the Constitution for God's sake.

Answer 10

pal, America hasn't been a Christian country for quite a few years now. Sorry to break it to u. It i true that there are many Christians, but if you generalize, America isnt Christian any more.

Answer 11

America isn't a Christian country. People will always fight to protect the civil liberties of non-Christians. The Ten Commandments will never be posted in any courthouse, no matter how much people fight for it.