5 Reasons America Is Not -- And Has Never Been -- a Christian Nation

[Brewman_Jax]

http://www.alternet.org/belief/155985/5_...an_nation/

The reasons are:
1. The Text of the Constitution Does Not Say the United States Is a Christian Nation
2. The Founders’ Political Beliefs Would Not Have Led Them to Support the Christian-Nation Idea
3. The Key Founders Were Not Conservative Christians and Likely Would Not Have Supported an Officially Christian Nation
4. Shortly After the Constitution Was Ratified, Conservative Ministers Attacked It Because It Lacked References to Christianity
5. During the Post-Civil War Period, a Band of Politically Powerful Pastors Tried Repeatedly to Amend the U.S. Constitution to Add References to Jesus Christ and Christianity


This is one of the rabid racist RW's favorite catch phrases. Like most ravings of the right wing, it's not only false, but a lie. The Founders knew of the great religious wars and strife in Europe and took great care to avoid it here.

[jaxx]

The more this is pointed out, the better. This is a secular nation.