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The United States not a 'Christian Nation'

2008-11-14 02:54 AM

Agnostica
Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 10

I wanted to express my opinion here as I think Christianity is an important part of the United States and a lot of the citizens. But the US was founded on the concept of the separation of church and state. Our founding fathers for the most part were considered Deists and not Christians.

2008-12-21 11:16 PM

NeilM
Dallas, TX
Posts: 2

Exactly. There is no part of the United States Constitution which references Christianity. The Declaration of Independence makes a reference to God.
The framers of the Constitution only intended for the federal government to not have the power to favor one religion over another. However, the Supereme Court, interpreting one of the amendments (I can't remember which one) later ruled that states must abide by that policy too.