How was the USA Founded on Christianity??

It wasn't Founded on Christianity the "In God we trust" on our money was put on their from the 1950's when we was scared about commies.

Creator does not only pertain to christianity. You have to remember native americans were still around at that time and did not know what "GOD" was. Instead they called "GOD" as the "CREATOR"

or the "GREAT SPIRIT".

Many christians think its all about them.

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"

-John Adams In a letter to Thomas Jefferson dated June 28, 1813

We are a Christian Nation in the sense that our moral code is based on the Christian Bible. It does not mean we are exclusively Christian or must be a Christian in order to be American.

The reason they said that Congress shall make No law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion is what they understood the reason for founding this nation. That reason was to allow people to be free to practice their religion as they chose. But the basis of our Liberty is that all men believe in God. When they used the term "Creator" it was universally understood that God is the Creator of everything. It was their contention that our rights come from God. What made America exceptional is that we hold that the power to govern comes from God and goes directly to individual citizens instead of some Monarch as was the case elsewhere in the World. You must keep their concept in the context of their frame of reference.

Adams also said:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Our Founders held that it was impossible to have the level of personal freedom they were describing unless the people had a strong, morally absolute code by which they live.

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We're not "founded" on Christianity; a lot of the Founders were just also Christian. And, certainly, one could argue that western civilization over the past few thousand years has been substantially impacted by Christianity, in terms of adherence to and rebellion from it.

We should also note, though, that the very Founders who were themselves Christian supported constitutional limitations on religion, in part because they or their ancestors came from a country with a troubled history of religion persecution and a state religion. Christian values are undeniable because we're so much a product of them in ways we don't even realize, but we're also a product of a secular reaction to religion (Scientific Revolution, the Renaissance in part, and the Enlightenment).

The guy who said all the founders were Christians is very ignorant. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Washington were not Christians, and were most likely Deists. And 'in god we trust' was put on our money in the 50's when the country was going crazy and calling everyone a communist. "One nation, under God" was added in the 1900's also. Don't rewrite history you bible thumper.

This is not a "christian nation"; it's a nation with a lot of Christians in it. Too damn many.

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"the founders were Christian".

If that's what you have to believe to get you through the day, fine. Jefferson thought that the Bible had many fine moral ideas in it, but rejected the notion that Jesus was the son of God. Google "Jefferson Bible".

And many of the founding fathers were deists, not Christians.

Does the CREATOR in the only pertain to Christianity? Or to any GOD?

Being that most of them were of the Christian faith, and most of the laws were after the fashion of the 10 commandments and the commandments being very visible in and on the buildings, I would assume they were talking about The One True God. However if you are liberal then it doesn't matter because you will twist to read whatever you feel like on any given day anyway.

Many of the Founding Fathers were Deists, whether or not you view Deism as Christianity is up to you!

Judeo Christian beliefs. The Creator is God. All faiths have one.

As to your opinion, I appreciate it, but don't need a lesson in Constitutional law and history, particularly from a self appointed expert.

Hope that helps.

It was all those Puritans, Quakers, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, Amish, that came ashore in the pursuit of religious freedom. Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately-held religious convictions and fled Europe.

The founders of this country believed in their faith. They also believed others had a right not to without fear or persecution.