Interesting read, laureth, thanks! It appears to be written from a biased point of view, though…so let me offer another biased one, with quotes and history as well, which comes to an answer that is akin to yours, but not so black and white
Maybe my words could have been chosen more carefully, but I stand by my statement that this country was built on Christian principles, but not necessarily built on Christianity. Those principles include honesty, integrity, and tolerance.
On a petty note, one quote from your article caught my eye…“The words “Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God” are never mentioned in the Constitution—not once.”
True, but it was “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.”
Minor, yes, but if you’re going to insinuate that anyone who participates in a rebellion can’t be a Christian because of a verse in 1st Samuel, we’re back to the whole shellfish thing as well. Do you believe homosexuals can be Christians? I do, so the 1st Samuel thing doesn’t work either.