You think the US was founded as a Christian nation?

No - I know that it was not. The founding fathers specifically rejected the notion of the US being a Christian nation. George Washington himself said so in a number of letters and communications. The founders were aware that the United States was settled by people of many religions and they saw no reason to encourage or repress any of them.

The framers of the Constitution felt so strongly about the secular nature of the United States that the FIRST two clauses of the Bill of Rights specify that Congress cannot make any laws that establish a religion or give it official or quasi-official status, nor can it make laws that prohibit citizens from practicing their religion beliefs (including non-belief) freely. There is no evidence that they intended this to apply only to Christian sects or to protect Christians, nor is there any evidence that they simply assumed that most citizens would be Christian.

People who claim that the US was founded as a Christian nation are simply idiotic and ignorant.

I am really sorry that you've been subjected to that kind of brainless hatred from one of the many US lunatics who claim to love this country and haven't got the faintest notion what it stands for - and who would be only to happy to ditch democracy for a theocracy, as long as they ended up on top.

They're morons. Please try to ignore them.

They make separation of church and state. I think they did for good reason. history shows that religion and politics is an awful mix. If anything what they said and did shows that they don't want this to be a religious country at all.

"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion." 1797 the treaty of Tripoli, signed by President Washington, and approved by the Senate of the United States

The treaty of tripoli was a carefully worded document that was written not as a Christian but as citizens of a sovereign nation. So as to not make the issue a religious one between Islamic pirates and the Christians who infact were Americans.. Seems to me that even then Americans were careful to not offend the sensibilities of hostile Muslims...

Homeland Security is having to put more and more time and resources into tracking christians who seek to tear up the constitution, destroy democracy and foment a second civil war to install a christian dictatorship!!

A chilling warning has been issued to US police forces about the threat of a rise in violent right wing and christian extremist groups fueled by recession, the return of disgruntled army veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and hostility over the election of the first black president!!

Seems these people are not just a bigger threat to American freedoms than external terrorists but completely anti American!!!

Seems you are at odds with the government!!

your name is not McVey is it?!!

Im Atheist and served in the Marine Corp for 4 years and this nation was NOT founded as a Christian nation.

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, states "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; "

Can you really argue with a genuine government document?

@MOF77: "Under God" was added in the 1950s. The U.S. was not founded in the 1950s.

No. I think America & Australia were founded largely on Christian principles, but neither were founded as Christian Nations.

I think that America was not founded as a Christian nation and never should or be one.

Nice job on the collection of quotes, I never could have found those!

Our founding fathers where as eager as could be to take as much christian thinking out of the mix as possible.

It's true that a christian approach ( lying to, enslaving, and killing the natives of this land) was common when Europeans first came here....

But the founding fathers where more enlightened than that, and did their best to move us away from the Roman mentality of "conquerors" as they officially founded the nation.

Many christians like to make a fuss about America being founded on "christian values" as a means of trying to make it sound OK for us to continue making poor moral choices as to how we treat people.

Nothing more.

No. America was founded to get away from religion in government.

Anyone who studied the American Revolution in third grade knows that.