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Is the US a Christian nation ?

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4meAndyou · F Best Comment
It WAS. and still is. Our founders created our country as a Christian nation. It is our tradition.

What is a nation? It's people. Right now, 62% of our citizens are Christian. Therefore Christianity is dominant.
Nimbus · M
@4meAndyou Good to hear :)
4meAndyou · F
@Nimbus Thank you for best comment!

MartinII · 70-79, M
Officially no, in practice very largely, I think. An interesting contrast to the UK, for which the answer would be officially yes, in practice not much.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@MartinII

Someone from England once jokingly explained to me that because religion and physical education are required in all the schools there, everyone becomes physically unfit and an atheist as an adult!
MartinII · 70-79, M
@DrWatson 75% true of me! But there's little religion in most schools nowadays.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@MartinII Ah! this conversation did happen a long time ago.
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
Strong Christian tradition ,but in practice I'd say no
Nimbus · M
@Justmeraeagain That's true 👍
emmasfriend · 46-50, F
A neighbour who went to an English public school told me that there was so much 'chapel' that people either became archbishops or atheists.
Nimbus · M
@emmasfriend Now that really is polarisation :)
Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
The Christians would certainly like to think so, but part of the reason the original settlers came here was for religious freedom. And in that spirit, the founding fathers saw fit to make certain there was no official religion of this country.
shuhak · M
Not hardly. It, like many other nations in the world, is very pagan. While many Americans claim to be "Christian", few actually follow/obey the Jesus in the Bible (they follow a different jesus).
Thodsis · 51-55, M
It's the mask that's regularly worn....
Nimbus · M
@Thodsis I hear you!
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
Well, it used to be more so than now.
No, like any other nation it is not.

The vast majority of Americans, like any other country, are unsaved.
AbbeyRhode · F
Always was. They just need to get together, and expel the agents of Satan from our country.
Nimbus · M
@Unquestioned Unusual :)

 
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