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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is scary that you think because the Bible isn’t mentioned in the Constitution our country isn’t based on Judeo Christian values. The book you cite is written by someone who created a bunch of straw man arguments (the pledge of allegiance and “One Nation Under God” were not part of our founding principles, but that doesn’t negate the Judeo Christian principles our founders espoused. Name any early settlement and there was a church at the center of it.  [/quote]

I’m going to blow your mind when I tell you some of the Founders were Deist. I’m also going to blow your mind when I tell you the concept of an overarching “Judeo Christian” identity would have been totally foreign to them. They lived in a time when there were Catholic colonies, Church of England colonies, Protestant colonies, and “tolerant” colonies. Europe’s various religious wars and massacres - among the people who believed in Christ as savior but quibbled on the details - were living memory for them. The idea of a “Christian” nation would have been nonsense because which do you pick?[/quote]

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