How did America start as a Christian Nation?

By never starting as one. Unless you consider a Christian majority a Christian nation.

My definition would be that a Christian Nation has Christianity as it official national faith, in America official national faith is prohibited by each the Treaty Tripoli and the Constitution.

Sorry, but the facts don't support your conclusion. Leading Evangelical Tony Campolo puts it nicely into perspective.

“While it is certainly true that the culture of America was highly influenced by Christianity during the Revolution and early national periods, the founders of our nation made it a basic principle that neither Christianity nor any other religion would ever be designated as the official religion of our country. Christian values provided a basis for the high humanistic values that are inherent in our national character, but it is wrong to call America a Christian nation. It can easily be argued that our concept of democracy was derived as much from the philosophies of the Enlightenment as from the Bible. In fact, historians tell us that less than 15 percent of those living here in 1776 were members of any church.” Tony Campolo, Letters to a Young Evangelical (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 220.

Best to find your own answer! 1. Read the founding documents...

Mayflower Compact, Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, US Constitution.

2. Answer the question. What form of Government do we have?

Article 4 Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

Next you can study what a "Republican form of government" is.

By looking at the first documented republic...which was?

The Hebrew republic

http://www.contra-mundum.org/books/republic.pdf

The question about any government is - who makes law?

In order for the US to be a Christian nation you must support the idea that Christ

makes law in the United States and the people agree to follow his rules rather than some one else's

Was that true at the time of Constitution (1789)?

Did we follow the ten commandments?

Is it true today ?

End you study with Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blackston...

How did America start as a Christian nation? By accepting God as the authority of law

and the lawmaker rather than man or groups of men.

So sad that this is no longer true today.

Hope this helps.

You're having difficulty because America did not start as a christian nation. I don't think you're a fool, but you are misguided. The founding fathers were not all christians, nor were they atheists. Some were religious, some were not. Religion was not the focus, nor was it the foundation of the work these men did.

Your best bet would be to go to a library, and get some help from a reference librarian. You may find that what you believe to be true is false, but that doesn't make you unintelligent. Learning to separate fact from fiction makes you smarter.

Well, if it's a research paper, it has to deal in facts (unless it's for a religious school, I guess).

The United States DID NOT start out as a Christian nation, regardless of what some are trying to teach today. You said "I know it did, I just need a website or some books to prove my facts are right for my work sited page.". Sorry, but that is not research - that is creating propaganda. Research, as I said above, is about discovering the FACTS, compiling them and presenting them.

I hope you have an open enough mind to consider my comments.

America did not start as a christian nation. It started as a nation that held the concept of separation of church and state. This is fact, read the constitution. However many of the leaders at the time the nation was born were Christian, but not all of them. Remember they left England because there was NO separation of church and state and they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, and that why they started the government having a clause for the separation of church and state.

However, if you want, you can find plenty of information that says America is a christian nation, regardless of what is recognized by federal law and the US Constitution. These would be the right-wing Evangelicals. Try the John Birch Society, the Minute Men, the KKK, Fox News, and you can find tons of information about why America belongs to white people, and God, and Jesus Christ, and that it is a christian nation. You just need to look in places that think they know better.

Native Americans worshipped different Spirits, but then foreign settlers came and brought their religion (Christianity) with them.

Many of the Native Americans were murdered by these settlers, creating a Christian majority who went on to breed and prosper, carrying the Word of God with them across the whole Country.

Therefore, when modern civilisation (civilisation as we know it) began in America, it was the Christians who started it and they continued it, making America into a predominantly Christian country.

The only possible angle you could take is to cite the Puritans and Huguenots as examples of Christian colonists, along with some other early settlements.

The governmental entity of the United States was never Christian, but prior to that some early settlers were.

It originally was not a Christian Nation. The Native Americans were not Christians. Thomas Jefferson was a Unitarian along with a few of the other founding fathers.

The united States of America is not now nor has it ever been a "Christian Nation", we have more than our share of delusional Christians and they want this country to be homogenized into Christianity and even thrown back into the Dark Ages, but we are not a nation of Christians.

Our founding fathers were not religious people and certainly not Christians.