You must not be from here. This country was founded by Christians for Christians. But don’t take it from me, take it from John Adams, a key founding father and our second president.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”
I was born here and not all of our Founders were as religious as people like to claim. They certainly made it clear that the country was not to be governed in accordance with any religion. Many people were involved in the founding and building of the US. No, they were not all Christians, nor were they all even religious. And they certainly weren't all theocrats even if they were.
And either way, this in no way changes what I said. The founders weren't perfect humans and were products of their time as much as anyone else. They also didn't address slavery, yet I wouldn't argue that they all agreed upon slavery as a founding American principle. Being religious is not the same as governing religiously.
But don't take it from me, take it from the very first Amendment in our Bill of Rights. Why didn't they make the US officially a Christian country if it was really made by Christians exclusively for Christians?
Not only did they not do that, they explicitly forbid it. Probably because they were smart enough to realize that, although they may have been Christian, a theocracy of any kind would be just as bad a tyranny as the one they were escaping.
And I'm guessing it was also a self-interested decision to prevent themselves becoming abused if their religion was no longer dominant some day. Yet another reason to just not govern religiously at all.
America was founded as a Christian nation. From the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to Washington, Adams, Lincoln, our laws, morals, and culture come from Christianity. It’s not controversial, most people were Christian, the nation’s soul is Christian.
The First Amendment doesn’t erase the fact that America was founded by Christians, for a Christian people. It simply prevented the federal government from picking which Christian denomination would rule the others. The Founders assumed a Christian moral order, they didn’t think the nation could function without it. Removing Christianity from America’s foundation isn’t what the First Amendment was about, it’s a modern misreading.
