Comments on: Hot Topic: Is U.S. A "Christian Nation?"

[koko98-2009]

Officially the government is neutral on the issue of religion. So to a certain extent the President was correct. Our traditions and institutions are still Christian, school vacations occuring when they do, but they are becoming less so every day.

[cs4466]

Just six years after the First Amendment became an official part of the Constitution, the U.S. Senate read (in the English language) and ratified a treaty with Tripoli which included in Article 11 the following assertion: "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" (John Adams, 1797, Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts, 2:365).

The Founding Fathers could not have stated the principle of separation any more clearly than when they wrote: "No religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" (U. S. Constitution, 1787, Art. 6, Sec. 3).

Most people have a poor understanding of history. The neocons and right wing fundamentalists of the last twenty or thirty years have done what they can to obscure these truths in favor of their own ideologies. America is not a Christian nation, but we are a free nation. It's important not to let the partisan ideologues change that.

[Omegared7]

http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=125

[heavynne]

Christian means Christ like. I don't exactly see our nation as Christ like in nature. I am Christian, but it seems to be more of an individual thing than a national thing. I believe that any religion that honors the notion of God and Jesus, which names are many (Jehovah, Allah, etc.) all add up to the same beliefs and morals. The Catholics seem to feel that theirs is better, but considering all of the priests over the decades that have been convicted of child molestation, that's debatable. Our nation has and is turning away from God, so I don't consider us a Christian nation. We are a melting pot from every kind of religion.