The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

I don't know if I'd go so far to say that it is "un-American" but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the notion of American being a "Christian Nation" runs counter to the Founding Fathers intentions.The term "separation of church and state" derives from a letter written to the Danbury Baptists of Connecticut explaining to them that they should have no fear that the gov't would institute a national religion.Likewise, Thomas Jefferson also wrote a treatise concerning the Barbary Wars sent to Muslims that detailed the United States as specifically not a Christian nation.My take is that colonial Americans certainly mostly were religious, specifically Christian as it was a custom past down from its European past, but that the government itself sought to remain completely neutral. Therefore the invocation of the US being a "Christian Nation" is prefaced on a distortion of the facts.But I wouldn't go so far to call it un-American. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.

You're right, that aspect is completely and fundamentally un-American as it flies in the face of the Bill of Rights. Sometimes we hear convenient ways around it, "I answer to a higher a law," which is really an excuse to replace constitutional law with religious dogma. I'm sure if Pence or Huckabee could have his way he would subvert the US into essentially a Christian caliphate (his denomination of course), but they would never view such a usurpation in those terms. Kind of amazing how frenetic many fundies are over Islam without seeing the obvious parallels between the two religious.