The United States is a Christian Nation

A nice argument and well researched even if it is totally disingenuous. Take this bit..............'Thomas Jefferson, a deist, rejected key Christian concepts such as The Trinity, The Virgin Birth, The Divinity of Christ, The Resurrection and Original Sin.'Thomas Jefferson was influenced by Locke of whom he saidfrom Wik Such was Locke's influence that Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Bacon, Locke and Newton... I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences" Later we are told that Locke...................... With regard to the Bible Locke was very conservative. He retained the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures.[23] The miracles were proofs of the divine nature of the biblical message. Locke was convinced that the entire content of the Bible was in agreement with human reason (The reasonableness of Christianity, 1695).[54][23] Although Locke was an advocate of tolerance, he urged the authorities not to tolerate atheism, because he thought the denial of God's existence would undermine the social order and lead to chaos.[55] That excluded all atheistic varieties of philosophy and all attempts to deduce ethics and natural law from purely secular premises, for example, man's "autonomy or dignity or human flourishing".[56] In Locke's opinion the cosmological argument was valid and proved God's existence. His political thought was based on "a particular set of Protestant Christian assumptions."[56][57] Locke's concept of man started with the belief in creation. We have been "sent into the World by [God's] order, and about his business, [we] are his Property, whose Workmanship [we] are, made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure."[58] Like the two other very influential natural-law philosophers, Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf, Locke equated natural law with the biblical revelation, since in their view both had originated in God and could therefore not contradict each other.There you have it. This is the bedrock of your constitution, ie it is logic based on an assumption. In the early colonial times the concept of 'rationalism' that you attribute to early 'fathers' was mostly a rejection of English Religous Powers within its monarchy. Indians were displaced and exterminated under God's law and only for the fact that slaves converted to christianity they would probably be still carrying water today. Religion did not need to be emphazised as it was taken as a given.Now here is the reverse of you argument. Tell me when these religious 'givens' were removed from the early fathers interpretations of what a Federation of States should be. The right to free speech that is abused by many of the hate preachers of Babtist sects today is merely the same right to impose that Hitler enjoyed in Germany between the two World Wars. They are banned from most European Countries because of the potential within their doctrines which is a lesson learned from the past. How can a President today suggest that Muslims, the second largest religion on the planet be denied entry into the worlds largest exponent of democratic thought. Have no doubt about it, the US is christian and always had been. It's foreign policy is the doctrine of brinkmanship and Armageddon and all you have to do is look at things like the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam for that. Now its an anti Muslim Crusade. That's what happens when you run out of Indians. Right is might