Donald Trump vs United States

@sree251 in 1967 i was eight years old.
Had i been old enough, yep...you betcha.

@sree251

Have you ever read the US Constitution? The Bill of Rights?

@Carla
These days, eight year olds are getting advice on gender reaffirmation and redesignation because they are encouraged to mess around by their teachers.

@sree251 show me

@sree251 an incel

@sree251 Gender transition is a requirement of Christian worship.

@sree251 Kudos. You've come up with a new definition of "we". It is "you" as an individual, not the country.

Let's get you schooled on the basics. The Constitution is for ALL of us Americans, not YOU as a so-called lapsed Catholic and your family. That is, assuming you can speak on behalf of your family, and I doubt that.

So, We are NOT a Christian nation. Now, you go ahead and dust up whatever religious book you can find, it's not going to be the Constitution.

@Northwest
This is your perception. Take a walk around town and count how many churches you see if you don't believe the statistics.

Hartford Institute estimates there are roughly 350,000 religious congregations in the United States. (Wiki)

@sree251 And that number is dropping every year as churches close down and merge due to falling membership.

You seem to be confused on what a "Christian nation" is. Around 70% of Americans identify as Christian, so we're definitely a country with a Christian majority. But Christianity is not our official religion, because we don't have one. Also, it's not like Christians are unified. There are dozens if not hundreds of Christian denominations, and Christians run the gamut from extremely conservative to extremely liberal. In fact, some of the most left-wing people I know are devout Christians. So if you're going to say the US is a "Christian country," do you mean Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist (northern or southern), Mormon, Mennonite, Hutterite, Quaker, Assembly of God, United Church of Christ, or what?

@sree251
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Clearly you have no clue what my town looks like. Of course there are churches in my town, but most of them were torn down over the past couple of decades, to make room for multi-purpose neighborhoods, with apartment buildings, to house the Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern and Chinese engineers, who brought their extended families.

More than half the population is now from these groups.

The brainier parts of the country are moving in that direction as well. But you can keep your bible belt, it has very little impact on my life, and the smart cities in the Bible Belt, are moving in that direction as well.

But to re-iterate, the Constitution says we're NOT a Christian nation. Try grasping that.

Jesus probably was a pretty decent Rabbi, with some brilliant reform ideas, but that's just about it.

@sree251 I'm not going to argue that Christianity is popular. Once the Romans co-opted it, it was basically forced on Europe at the point of a sword, followed by Asia and the Americas.

However, it's hardly cohesive as the various denominations don't all agree with each other. You seem to think that all American Christians are right-wing fundamentalists. However, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden are all practicing Christians. Trump, on the other hand, is an apatheist - someone who doesn't care if God exists or not.

Christianity is no longer a dominant force in Europe, and in a generation, it won't be one here either. It's not people like me degrading it, it's people like you. I posted the results of a survey recently. Americans are abandoning religion because they no longer believe in it, and because of the disgusting attitude toward LGBTQ that conservative churches display.

https://similarworlds.com/religion/4983956-Why-Americans-are-leaving-religion-Everyone-has-a-theory-but

Please look at the link before commenting if you don't want to come across as more ignorant than you actually are.