[noinfringers2]

I don’t buy into a belief that the state is more important than the individual and neither did the Founding Fathers of the USA although there are nations founded on the concept of a most powerful government, think Russia among others.It is the character of a nation’s people that establishes the character of the nation. Our Founders certainly recognized the source of all worthy character for humans and the nation as being the Creator of such.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

That is not historically accurate. Russia was essentially founded in 862 as a loose aggregation of tribes brought under unified rule with a Viking (Rurik) invited in to be the central figure.

You must be thinking of the distortions brought in when the Mongols invaded Russia in 1240 and massacred millions of people. But this has nothing to do with the "character" of the Christian people you so blithely insult.