President Obama declared that the U.S. is no longer a Christian nation while in Turkey. This flies in the face of the fact that 75 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. A new Newsweek poll reveals that 62 percent still think the U.S. is a Christian nation. David Limbaugh at Townhall.com dissects this statement.
A Christian Nation?
by David Limbaugh
President Barack Obama said in Turkey: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."
Well, I don't know what "we" consider "ourselves," but I do think we ought to examine that statement and why Obama felt compelled to make it a part of his world apology tour.
Can you imagine the Saudi king coming to America and bragging that his nation is not Muslim? I assure you that he's not ashamed of the Islamic character of his nation, even though his nation is demonstrably less tolerant of other religions.
So is (or was) America a Christian nation? If by that we mean that America is a Christian theocracy, that our government should give Christians preferential treatment, or that members of other faiths aren't welcome, the answer is an emphatic "no."
But if we are talking about the ideals that led to the very colonization of this land, our declaration of independence from Britain, and the formulation of our Constitution, then the answer is certainly "yes." (excerpt) read more at townhall.com
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A pointless argument. The nation was clearly designed with the intention of avoiding such a label, as it only leads to persecution of those not within the narrow confines of the fairy tale of the day. America may contain Christians, but that doesn't make it Christian any more than I am a pizza. 90% of the cells in your body are bacterial, does that make you a bacterial person?
The language within our founding documents is clearly written by people who grew up with religion at their core, but who struggled to keep it out of their national identity. They had every opportunity to call it a Christian nation, but didn't. It didn't just slip their mind, it was deliberate. Religion doesn't just taint government, government taints religion.
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