America was founded as a Christian nation.
Michael, where in The Declaration of the Independence, or in the U.S. Constitution, is there any mention of Christianity, as such?
Jefferson, the author of the former, was a Deist, and the same was true of some (I don't know how many) of the signers of the latter.
It is certainly true that the overwhelming majority of the citizens of this country, when it was founded, were Christian. So? A lot of them were slaveowners as well.
Some parts of our "cultural heritage" are more to be prized than others, in my opinion. And I personally would regard the principle of tolerance, which would, of course, include religious tolerance, as perhaps the most valuable. Hence I would object to any effort to exalt any one religion at the expense of other beliefs (or non-beliefs).
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