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America is Not a Christian Nation

On occasion, some Christians will inform me that America is a Christian Nation. In the sense that the majority of Americans are Christian that maybe true, but in the sense that Christianity is the national religion, it is obviously false. These particular Christians who claim that America is a Christian Nation really mean to say that America was in some way founded on the Christian belief system. This too is false.

In an attempt to prove their position, they bring out the Declaration of Independence which contains the terms, “Creator” and “Divine Providence.” It is easy to point out that the Declaration of Independence was not America’s founding document (the Constitution is) and that those terms aren’t even Christian terms, but rather they are deist terms. I also point out that Jefferson originally didn’t even have them in the Declaration, but added them at the “request” of the southern colonies.

The Constitution for the record has just two mentions of religion. The first is to protect citizens who seek public office or positions of public rust from a religious test and the second is the First Amendment’s “Establishment Clause.” No mention of Jesus, God, or Christianity at all.

But that rarely sways a Christian who holds to this dogmatic belief that America is a Christian Nation. They then tell me that God presupposes the laws in this country and that he is the lawgiver. Unfortunately for them, the Constitution and even the Declaration are pretty clear about who the lawgiving in America is, and it isn’t God. America’s laws are from the consent of the governed, “we the people.”

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