Why some say the US is a christian nation when the constitution says that no religion should hold preference?

Answer 1

I agree.

Also the United States has consistently showed it was not a true Christian Nation by the way it has treated its citizens.

They stole the land from the Native Americans, and has virtually killed off the Native Americans. That is not Christian.

They enslaved Africans, and raped and beat and murdered many of them. That is not Christian.

They mistreated and beat many of the Asian Americans who were building the railroads in the West. That it is not Christian

They continue to racially profile African Americans and Hispanic Americans. That is not very Christian.

America may claim to be a Christian Nation, but their actions clearly show that they are anything but Christian.

Answer 2

The constitution says no such thing. Read it before you make silly statements. What the constitution says is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Furthermore, nowhere does the constitution talk about the "separation of church and state". That's a common misconception.
The country was founded on christian principles. That's why USA is a christian nation.

Answer 3

Let's try to get our time-line adjusted as to when and by whom this country was founded. The pilgrims, a god-fearing, superstitious lot would be my guess as to who founded this country for the white man, I'm pretty sure the native Americans have a different view on the subject. Science wasn't a big part of people's lives from 1620 to 1776, god and the church were, so much so that people moved from England to get away from its suffocating forces. God may well indeed have been acknowledged in our constitution but just as surely religion was not, only to say it will not have the power it had in England. Does it make a person "christian" if they believe in god? I don't think so.

Answer 4

Wishing don't make it so.
A simple fact that so few respect.
You can enjoy your particular denomination without worry, you can be Jewish or Muslim or Shinto or Taoist.
Hindu too. The whole idea was that we would establish no national religion, no publicly supported preference.
None.
The whole first amendment drive those who want to prohibit us from talking or thinking in ways they don't approve of bonkers. Too much freedom I guess.

Is that two thumbs down for the Amendment to the Constitution? It does clearly state 'no law respecting the establishment of religion" not ''except for us being a Christian nation'' or "We are a Christian nation". None of that, they did frequently reference God, but not Christ. They were smart enought to be clear in every other respect. There is no reason to assume they weren't clear here too, for a reason.

Answer 5

In my opinion a country can be said truly secular only when you find people of different religions at many higher positions. How many non christians can you find in USA holding higher positions in White house or other departments? To clarify more, let me take India as an example. Hindu religion is majority in India. But India is not considered as a Hindu Nation, it is truly secular. I am a Hindu by birth, my previous state chief ministers were Christians and Muslims, my present prime minister is Sikh and previous President was Muslim and present chief of majority political party is a Christian and a foreigner by birth.

Answer 6

Since so much of the Bible is about Farming, I'll use a farming metaphor.

If you allow weeds to grow in your pumpkin patch sooner or later it will be a abandoned field of weeds.

If you allow every imaginable Traveling Salvation Show in you Government sooner or later you will have Constitution that is "just a piece of paper"

Answer 7

the only ones who say that are, of course, christians. they would like you to believe that they are 'tolerant' of other religions, but when push comes to shove, they scream christianity is the religion of the country and that the united states was "founded as a christian nation", which it most certainly was not. you see, most of the people who claim they know what the constitution says, don't. what the constitution does do is enumerate the limits of GOVERNMENT on the people, not the other way around. the founders KNEW the danger of instituting a state religion and took great pains to insure that no one would be abe to do so. christians, as you can well imagine, have a hard time understanding this.

Answer 8

an exceedingly great majority, something like 80%, of the yank public declare to be Christian. for this reason, you could actually relatively argue that this may be a Christian united states. people who say diverse, i permit you already know do your analyze and coach me incorrect. As for the shape, it says the government. can no longer set up one faith simply by fact the 1st rate faith. besides the incontrovertible fact that, people seem to overstep and misread that constitutional good whilst it includes public faculties. faith has constantly and could constantly be aside of existence, no rely what faith it must be. If faith have been taught in faculties I assure you people could start to appreciate cultures lots greater efficient and probably, purely perchance you does no longer see as lots battling between us. there's a huge distinction between coaching faith and forcing faith. many people, exceedingly atheists, do no longer seem to appreciate that.

Answer 9

The founding fathers may have been Christians, but not in the sense that most people who bring up the point think.

Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence, was a student of Locke, and a deontologist.
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison (author of the Constitution) were all deists, rational people who believed that god was non-interventionist. In other words, they believed that if there was a god, he was only there in the sense that he set up the universe with certain governing principles and set it into motion, like clockwork.

People who argue that this is a Christian nation do so in order to lend credibility to their own xenophobic belief systems. Unfortunately, it is often useless to reason with them, since they have already decided that at least one realm of thought, faith, is beyond rationality.

Answer 10

As a result, Secretary Chase instructed James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, to prepare a motto, in a letter dated November 20, 1861:
Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

This is only ONE example. It is clear that Many of our forefathers were Christians and they were our leaders and they based most of their decisions on their beliefs therefore that being said our world was based on a Christian nation. That is not debatable from were I stand, but many can debate it. I would suggest you stay indoors during a storm :)