Buzsaw writes:
You don't have to reinvent the past to understand the difference in nations like the USA, whose underpinnings are largely Biblical fundamentals and say, Muslim theocratic nations, Nazi Germany, secularistic communist nations and Mexico etc.
And what exactly ARE these fundamentals that you keep going on about? Please name for me one exclusively "Fundamentalist" moral trait or principle that has contributed to increase in life expectancy, income, or education level, to name but a few. Note that I said EXCLUSIVELY, because for your argument to work, these have to be principles that don't exist in any other belief (or non-belief) system.
While you're at it, please show me where these explicitly Biblical principles appear in the Constitution of the United States. That's the document that deliniates how the US is supposed to work as a nation, that and no other.
Like so many other people, Buz, you keep mistaking a nation with a population that is predominantly Christian, as this one was at its founding and continues to be, and a Christian nation. A Christian nation would have to be Christian in the same way that Isreal is a Jewish nation or Saudi Arabia is a Muslim nation; that is, it would have to have specifically religious laws as part of its legal system. The last time I checked anyway, making a graven image or coveting my neighbor's ass isn't a federal offense.
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