Fact #06: At least according to America’s founding fathers, the United States was never intended to be a Christian nation, and therefore to this day still isn’t one.

“I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny … Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated.” ~ George Washington

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own … Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law … Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“I hold that in this country there must be a complete severance of church and state.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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“The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” ~ John Adams

“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

NOTE: While I myself am a devout Follower of The Way of Christ (and therefore not a Christian), I am NOT intending to discredit the religion of Christianity or its member Christians with this post. I also openly recognize that the underlying morality & ethics of Jesus Christ (as presented in the Gospels, NOT his “teachings” from the book of Revelation) are also found in many of the edicts & the ideals of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. These truths do not change the fact that the vast majority of America’s founding fathers were NOT Christians, that the vast majority of them did NOT intend for America to be or to become a “Christian nation”, and that the true potential Strength of the United States rests in her call to accept & respect & indeed cherish the equal rights of ALL her citizens to responsibly pursue life, liberty and happiness in the ways they each see fit — and this regardless of the god or gods they happen to worship, and regardless of the religion to which they happen to adhere.

Amen … Let it be so.