Do you think America is a Christian nation? Do you think the forefathers,?

Most of the "forefathers" were freemasons. And Freemasons are NOT Christians.

Only in the sense that most Americans are Christian (we're a "Christian majority nation"). Of COURSE the founding fathers didn't design America to be a religious nation. They expressly prohibt the government from forcing ANY religion down the throats of the citizenry. Go read a copy of the Constitution. (I guess what I've been hearing is true; schools no longer teach Social Studies classes. Tragic!)

I'm not sure. George Washington is a Freemason right? The Washington monument resembles an Egyptian Obelisk. George Washington had a picture of him reaching apotheosis inside the Capitol. The eye symbol in the dollar bill.

Sounds like they were theists but believe God is more "universal" than Christian. They call him The Great Architect of the Universe or The Supreme Being or something more general instead of God of Abraham or God of the Bible, or

Yahweh.

Sir Rene O. Your information is inaccurate. My father and some of his friends are Christians and they participate in Freemasonry. Freemasonry is not a religion. You can confirm by asking some Freemasons themselves.

As stated, the founding fathers were a mixed group. Some may have been Christians, but others were Deists as well.

It would sort of take away the point of the 13 colonies by founding America on one religious base. This was a place were others escaped to so they could be free to practice their own religions in the first place.

That is an excellent question, because the phrase "Christian nation" means different things to different people. In a literal sense, you could say that it is, because a majority of its citizens are Christians.

However, contrary to what many would have you believe, the Founding Fathers did NOT intend for the United States to be a Christian theocracy. Quite the opposite in fact, since freedom of religion is arguably the MOST important element of any free and democratic society. And religious freedom cannot exist without the separation of church and state.

Most of the Founding Fathers believed in God, but many (including Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson) were deists - they had serious reservations about organized religion in general, and specifically Christianity. Paine once wrote, "of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity."

Many believe that the U.S. was founded on Christian principles, but this was simply not the case. John Adams addressed this assertion directly in the Treaty of Tripoli (1796): "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."

As Thomas Jefferson put it, “I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.” This is precisely why Christian-themed icons & groups need to stay out of government institutions – because their inclusion marginalizes the non-Christian citizens of a country in which “all men are created equal.”

The freedom to worship (or not) as we choose is one of the things that makes the U.S. a GREAT place to live.

In the Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams on June 10, 1797, it specifically says,

Art. 11. "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

Given this treaty was signed by one of the founding fathers, I think it can be taken to show their clear intent.

Furthermore, it should be pointed out that some of the more prominent founding fathers were Deists, and not Christian. While the Deist may believe in the idea of a supreme being as the creator of the Universe, they don't not believe in the idea of a personal god watching over our lives. Prominent founding fathers who were deists include Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and George Washington. And some would even question whether Franklin believed in god at all.

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@Josh: I challenge you to find one mention of Christianity in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all men were endowed with certain inalienable rights by their creator, but he never mentions Jesus or Christianity.

I also challenge you to find Christianity in the Constitution. The only mentions of religion you will find are the clause saying no religious test will ever be required for a position of trust under the United States; and the First Amendment which guarantees the freedom of religion.

Actually, many of the Founding Fathers, e.g., Thomas Jefferson, were Deists, not Christians.

There is no evidence that they intended for America to be a "Christian" nation.

There is, however, evidence that they did not.

If the Founding Fathers had intended America to be a "Christian" nation, they would have stated so in the Constitution. They did not.

Another definitive piece of information comes from the Treaty with Tripoli, which specifically states, "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,...."

Many of our founding fathers were openly hostile to (Thomas Paine, John Adams, James Madison), or distrustful of (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin) Christianity and especially the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the lesser signers of the Declaration of Independence where Christian, but nobody had the intention to set our government up as such. Being religious doesn't automatically make them Christian.

This, of course, doesn't change that our early population, like now, is Christian. One of those biblical principles our country was founded on was slavery, after all. Back then Christianity was much more fractionalized, however, when Presbytarian and Anabapist actually meant something.

Thomas Paine was one of the few openly atheist, who said, "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."

The Constitution, the document that forms the nation, makes no mention of Christianity, God, or Jesus.

Some of the founding fathers were Christian, many of them were deists. Leaving religion out of the Constitution was intentional according to all documents written by those who were part of the process.

No! America wasn't America when it was found-we stole this place. And no way-this isn't a place called nation of Christians.

We are in the sense that their are a lot of Christians...

The country itself is secular...

I have no problem with the founders either being or not being Christian, it has no bearing on the type of government set up and it is NOT a theology and was never designed to be...