Is the U.S. a Christian Nation?

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In the introduction to her book, The Rewriting of American History, Catherine Millard, historian and author, writes, “Rewriting a nation’s history is frequently one of the first strategies taken by a conquering nation.  Why?  Because a people who do not know from where they came also do not know where they are going to.”  I believe we have become ignorant of the founding principles of this nation and therefore will believe whoever shouts the loudest in the public discourse.

The “wall of separation’’ between church and state, so often quoted today, was a line from a letter by Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists on January 1, 1802.  This was a personal, private letter to a specific church.  It was meant to protect their God-given right to exercise their faith without fear of government involvement.  Unfortunately this has been used to attempt to keep Christians from exercising their faith by publicly praying, reading Scripture, displaying religious symbols, etc.

As John Adams wrote:  “The general principles on which the father’s achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.  I will avow that I then believed and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”