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If America were founded as a Christian nation, the Constitution would say so. Instead, it omits God, prohibits religious tests and bars religious establishment. That silence wasn’t an oversight. It was a choice. firstthings.com/america-has-...

firstthings.comAmerica Has Always Been a Christian Nation - First ThingsAmerica is a Christian nation. It was at its birth, and despite increasing attacks on this reality, our Founding is unintelligible apart from the faith that animated it.  Today,...

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The Treaty of Tripoli, signed in 1792 by President John Adams, makes it perfectly clear that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." Period, end of story. Why are we still debating this?

I fear most folk don't quite understand that the First Amendment and the Christian version of America fundamentalists are trying to push are *fundamentally mutually exclusive..there is NO such thing as freedom of religion/speech/expression/protest/association etc w/o serious consequence in the Bible

Ben Franklin proposed the Constitutional Convention should start with a prayer. The Convention adjourned rather than vote on the proposal. No official prayer at the Constitutional Convention at all, at all. PS: Jefferson edited his version of the Gospels eliminating all the miracles & resurrection