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“We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity.” When Chief Justice James Kent wrote these lines in his opinion for the 1811 case, “People v. Ruggles,” the comment was nowhere near as controversial as it is today. In fact, for centuries, it was mainstream to call America a Christian nation. There are over 300 federal and state court cases that labeled America as a Christian nation. Presidents, governors, congressmen, and the Founders themselves called the United States a Christian country. Even President Woodrow Wilson said in his 1911 Flag Day Proclamation, “America was born a Christian nation — America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.”
In recent decades, however, a myth has been propagated that America wasn’t founded as a Christian nation. Countless articles have been published by websites like The History News Network, Americans United, and CNN attesting to this claim. Nevertheless, Americans don’t agree with that opinion. According to a Pew Research Poll conducted in 2022, 60% of participants believed the “founders of America originally intended for the U.S. to be a Christian nation.”
Revisionists have claimed that America is a secular country, the Founders were deists, and there must be “separation between church and state.” They’ve deliberately ignored historical facts that allow us to see the clear intentions of the Founding Fathers. That’s not to say America is a theocracy or that you should be forced to be a Christian in the United States, but rather, America built Christian values into its foundation, Christianity has been and is the dominant religion, and Christianity is integrated into our government and has been promoted by it.
Fred, the worldview of secularism took hold and attempted to rewrite American history. Fortunately, we still have depositories of knowledge that are able to describe what the situation was accurately. Thanks for your post.
“We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity.” When Chief Justice James Kent wrote these lines in his opinion for the 1811 case, “People v. Ruggles,” the comment was nowhere near as controversial as it is today. In fact, for centuries, it was mainstream to call America a Christian nation. There are over 300 federal and state court cases that labeled America as a Christian nation. Presidents, governors, congressmen, and the Founders themselves called the United States a Christian country. Even President Woodrow Wilson said in his 1911 Flag Day Proclamation, “America was born a Christian nation — America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.”
In recent decades, however, a myth has been propagated that America wasn’t founded as a Christian nation. Countless articles have been published by websites like The History News Network, Americans United, and CNN attesting to this claim. Nevertheless, Americans don’t agree with that opinion. According to a Pew Research Poll conducted in 2022, 60% of participants believed the “founders of America originally intended for the U.S. to be a Christian nation.”
Revisionists have claimed that America is a secular country, the Founders were deists, and there must be “separation between church and state.” They’ve deliberately ignored historical facts that allow us to see the clear intentions of the Founding Fathers. That’s not to say America is a theocracy or that you should be forced to be a Christian in the United States, but rather, America built Christian values into its foundation, Christianity has been and is the dominant religion, and Christianity is integrated into our government and has been promoted by it.
Fred, the worldview of secularism took hold and attempted to rewrite American history. Fortunately, we still have depositories of knowledge that are able to describe what the situation was accurately. Thanks for your post.