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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I'm not going to get in a long winded and pointless argument about this, but once again I find myself saying the obvious - of course the US was a Christian nation.
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No, it wasn't. It was established by people who professed, in varying degrees, a Christian faith but that isn't the same as saying that the nation they established was a Christian one.
Is China a Buddhist nation? Russia an Orthodox nation? France a Christian nation?
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The founders just didn't want a FACTION of the Church to grap power,
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You mean like now!
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or the government to use a church to consolidate its' own power.
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You mean like now?
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As far as teaching in public school, it was done for most of our history.
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Never in my lifetime.
John