04-01-2016, 12:14 PM
(03-30-2016, 09:32 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The country may have been founded on Christian beliefs because the country always has been predominantly Christian and therefore the people in power have always had an influence of their faith. But, this is not a Christian nation. We do not have a state church. There is no official status within any religion for our elected officials and clergy are afforded no positions in the government due to their status simply as clergy. The state is secular, and that is as it should be.
Of course, that's what I was getting at. Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion...means exatly that... there is to be no official religion, nothing more.
True we are not a Christian nation by mandate or decree, however it is not wrong to say we are Christian nation based on religious demographics...the vast majority of Americans identify as one Christian denomination or another ... like saying Pakistan is a Muslim nation, India a Hindu nation, Korea a Buddhist.
Saudi Arabia however is a theocracy... a Muslim nation by both decree and population. Their Constitution is the Koran. The laws of the land are in the Koran.
