The US has always been and always will be a Christian nation - regardless of what you were taught in some liberal collage, or what you or Obama says - you're in the minority.
The writers of the declaration of independence, makes perfectly clear that our rights come from God, not government, so it's fruitless to try to change the USA into a socialist state
The US IS NOT a Christian nation, and the framers were very clear in making the distinction. While they were theists... they were NOT all Christian. The "God" or more usually "Creator" title belongs not only to the Christ.
"No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or beliefs, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion."
Profess AND BY ARGUMENT maintain their opinions.
Jefferson himself rejected all of the superstition of Christianity... going so far as to write his OWN bible, removing all of the mysticism. Despite the revisionism by the Christians to claim him, he never believed Christ was the son of God. He had a creator he referred to a lot, but no immaculate ChristGod.
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity." -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes"
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
Yes brother... listen to your framers.
"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills"
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, August, 6, 1816
I could do this all day with Jefferson. It is almost unfair. Madison?
"That diabolical, hell-conceived principle of persecution rages among some; and to their eternal infamy, the clergy can furnish their quota of impas for such business..."
-James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., Jauary 1774
"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."
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James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., Jauary 1774
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
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Pres. James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize [sic], every expanded prospect."
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James Madison, in a letter to William Bradford, April 1,1774
By all means... come at me with the framers.
