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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article isn’t troubling. 61% of Republicans said they favored the government declaring the US a Christian nation, and most of those were older Americans. Most under 40 disagreed. So, you can relax. 
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Because the old folks will die soon, right?  Still, it's scary, because these are the people who studied Civics in public school where they learned that the US is not a Christian nation.[/quote]

Well, they learned that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; but they also learned that the US was founded on Judeo Christian values, and most of the people who settled the US were Christian. [/quote]

Nope.

https://www.salon.com/2021/05/03/america-was-not-founded-as-a-christian-country-based-on-judeo-christian-values_partner/

https://bigthink.com/the-present/why-americas-christian-foundation-is-a-myth/

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/american-history/

[i]the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion[/i]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

The biggest clue it is not founded on Judeo-Christian values?  The Bible is not mentioned once in the constitution.  I wonder why that is...[/quote]

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