The United States is a Christian Nation

The United States is a Christian Nation.The United States had Christianity as a dominant structure in the beginning.The following is a brief list of "founding fathers" known to be Christian, provided as evidence that Christianity was an unavoidable influence in the conscience of people vital to the founding of the United States .Patrick Henry was Virginia ’s governor, the largest, most important state when most political authority resided in the states. He was also instrumental behind the Bill of Rights.John Jay became our first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.Roger Sherman helped draft the Declaration, led the pivotal compromise at the Constitutional Convention and was the only man to sign all four founding documents. - this list would also includes John Hancock, John Witherspoon, Samuel Adams, and others. "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.” -George Washington's farewell address.Historian Larry Schweikart notes, “The founding documents of every one of the original thirteen colonies reveal them to be awash in the concepts of Christianity and God.” John Adams wrote, “The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the mind and hearts of the people: and change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.”Adams concluded freedom sprang because the “pulpits thundered!” Paul Johnson echoed, “The Great Awakening was thus the proto-revolutionary event, the formative moment in American history, preceding the political drive for independence and making it possible.”Benjamin Franklin rebuked the Constitutional Convention for neglecting prayer. He reminded that the delegates had prayed daily during the war and that God answered.http://avalon.law.yale.edu... It is an inescapable conclusion that the culture and beliefs of the founding fathers for the United States were predominantly Christian. This Christianity would have permeated there thoughts and deeds and likewise their intentions when laying the foundation for the United States.Christianity is inherently assumed and implicitly present in The Constitution of the United States.It becomes apparent when one reads the Constitutional delegate discussions about the first amendment that the founding fathers were discussing Protestant religions (Christianity) and that no single Christian denomination should prevail, but Christianity being present nonetheless.(Annals of Congress, 1789) http://memory.loc.gov... Num=221George Mason had actually proposed the following words as the text for the 1st amendment:"All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others" (Rowland, Kate (1892), The Life of George Mason (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons))So, obviously the presence of Christianity was being assumed, but sensibly after the oppression of the Anglican Church they were cautious about any particular denomination of Christianity being in power. This is a far different situation than the absence of religion, and more specifically the absence of Christianity.Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution: “If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted)..." http://www.archives.gov...WAIT A SECOND!Sundays excepted??? wha??...why would Sundays be excepted?...Government is shut down on Sundays? (spoiler alert Jewish Sabbath is Saturday).The idea that the United States government is not "open" on Sundays is a blatant reference to the Christian tradition of Sunday being the Sabbath day. and then we read further in the Constitution...towards the end..."Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth...."Did I just read the words "in the year of our Lord"?....oh my.The intentional omission of using the secular year notations of C.E. or B.C.E. speaks to the fact that their intentions were not simply to avoid Christianity..in fact the use of the word "Lord" in that manner is a specific reference to Christianity.Clearly the evidence, reasoning, and logical conclusions lead to the affirmation that the United States is a Christian Nation because its founding fathers were Christian, its founding principles are Christian, and even today with 78.4% of the population being Christian (http://religions.pewforum.org...) this affirmation is glaring and unavoidable.