The United States is a Christian Nation

Let me just explain a basic fact here. The growth of liberalism, is not an indication of a non-Christian nation. Christianity has become totally schismatic and to a large extent 'incomprehensible'. America's commercialism and decadence was never truly Christian in any shape or form. It was a directionless pursuit of a mirage. Most secular rationalists might object to abortion as a social solution to uncontrolled procreation. Many might object to same sex partnerships. These issues were never religious ones but they have been dealt with within US law as being just that, and that is the point. Let us go back to the start again. .. .. .. .. .. From Wik:In 1776 the Second Continental Congress asked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to write the Declaration of Independence. This Committee of Five voted to have Thomas Jefferson write the document. After Jefferson finished he gave the document to Franklin to proof. Franklin suggested minor changes, and one of them stands out far more than the others. Jefferson had written,"We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable. .. " Franklin changed it to, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. "The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Very interesting stuff but regardless of the final considerations the draft results in enshrining a Christian Genesis logic to the whole undertaking. This presumes that man was made and was given rights (free will) ,when he was made. He therefore has similar rights to all his fellows, ie he should be allowed to exist freely to pursue an individualistic path without interference. This is a declaration of independence from previously experienced oppressions such as monarchy, feudalism and class slavery which had been propped up by the dubious dogma of the corrupt churches of the Old World, in particular the Papacy and the Church of England. These deductions would appear to a secular rationalist as absurd. Rationally, man is part of evolutionary life on earth and as such he shares communal connections with all aspects of that life. This would rationally suggest a particular responsibility on man in general regarding the preservation and care of our world as it exists. It would never suggest exclusivity to rights for the human or for the individual that were uniquely theirs and distinguishable from the logical needs of their social grouping, and from the observed implications of that grouping's wider context within all life. In truth a secular rationalist would most likely exclude the notion of an individual legitamacy to do anything at all. There would therefore be no rights but rather the parameters of allowable action tethered between agreed societal and environmental responsibilities and based on wider logical considerations made about our existence in general. This is not a reality that has ever existed within our societies and when we allow for this fact we accept that the US religious botch is what it is, ie a form of Disney.