[Pitiricus]

Very interesting analysis...

[AppyPappy]

We are not a Christian nation. If we were, we wouldn't have the problems that we have today.

[pissant]

Interesting, yet flawed. John Adams and Gerge Washington were devout Christians. They make GWB seem like a non-believer.

Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin saw flaws in the main Christain denominations of their day, but both professed belief in Christ as the true Son of God.

[Monterrosa-24]

Article paints with a very broad brush. It attempts to cover a books worth of info in a few hundred words making no shortage of errors along the way.

Just because a figure like Alexander Hamilton did not stick to a congregation does not mean that he was not a traditional Christian. Read McDonald's biography of Hamilton.

[Protagoras]

Very interesting analysis...

Particularly for an anti-christian with an agenda.

[byHISblood]

As a Christian minister, I have to agree that the USA is NOT a Christian country. It is a country of many nationalities and beliefs. Just because leaders mention God alot does not mean our country is run accordingly. It has no politics of Christian values rather, it uses the Bill of Rights for its doctrine. It grants us the right of religious freedom, it does not dictate Christian values. Democracy is not Christianity.

[Earthdweller]

Don't you just love it when they try so hard to figure us out using flawed logic and misinformation.

[Sloth]

No Christian nation would tolerate rampant infanticide.

[wideawake]

Very boring and flawed analysis, actually.

One of the signal developments on the evangelical scene is the revival of the principles of the Westminster Confession - precisely the creed which Calvin inspired and which Jonathan Edwards upheld in its doctrinal particulars.

[skeeter]

This writer provides a good example of why a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Interesting, but also biased towards certain aspects of Christianity in America...Totally ignored the continuity of Baptist church thought, the impact the Restoration movement, and some other very strong impulses in the American religious experience...The Evangelical movement didn't just pop up out of a vacuum. Article does hint at the tendency in America for churches that compromise with the core teachings of Christianity to become less and less important to those who really believe and more and more of a social club/service body with less and less impact on people and fewer and fewer members, to be replaced by churches where the belief is still taken seriously.

No doubt this is what happens when you don't have state sponsored churches...but it doesn't take away the fact that America is a country where even if it's not technically Christian by law, it is Christian in culture in many ways, which is causing the conflict with the atheists trying to establish Atheism as the offical doctrine of the public sector...Christianity does very well, normally, under persecution...the more they persecute us, the more committed a lot of us get!

[malakhi]

The U.S. is not a "Christian nation". It is a (non-sectarian) republic, predominantly peopled by Christians of every conceivable variety, with an admixture of many other religions.

[maestro]

What makes the US a Christian nation ......?

Answer:

Israel?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The claims is this article are a little stretched. While the numbers may be lower due to the influence of liberalism and while many things have changed, there is historic continuity among Catholic Christians in America. Catholics who still attend Mass and who are orthodox have maintained a Christian culture in North America. Albeit, a small remnant.

[azhenfud]

"What makes the US a Christian nation"

A nation of Christians.

[RightWhale]

Kierkegaard is making a comeback. Some of his stuff is still capable of twisting ones brainlobes into pretzels, so there are limits to the heights we can reach in depression.

[MEGoody]

"few people doubt that the United States is a Christian nation"

I am a Christian, and I seriously doubt it. If the U.S. were truly a Christian nation, abortion and homosexual marriage wouldn't even be issues. Video games, music, TV and movies wouldn't be full of sex and violence because such 'entertainment' wouldn't sell.

[MissAmericanPie]

This flurry of denominations really means little. What God requires is acceptance by faith of Christ's redemption of the repentant individual.

America was blessed with great abundance of invention, ingenuity, and individualism because of the place of honor given Him in the lives of the citizens of faith and their establishment for Him of a place of honor carved into the very marble walls of our government buildings . As we move away from Him, His abundance moves away from us.

As we dilute ourselves with political correctness, strange religions, and secularism, we step away from His promises. There is a scripture that really says it all, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but whose end is destruction".

Now these "intellectuals" can rewrite history all they want, but in the past the Churches were full to over flowing on Sundays. Sunday was set aside and stores were closed. There were very, very, few families that did not attend Church on a somewhat regular basis to listen to fire and brimstone preachers that laid it on the line about sin.

Let me be bold enough to say that if not for the Christian presence still on earth, God would not tolerate the presence of the rest for a nano second. Talk to God about being tolerant, and it is made plain that tolerance is extended for a time for men to repent, but our present existence is only tolerated for the sake of the Christian.

Before the foundation of the universe was laid, God promised Jesus that He would not lose one soul that had been promised to Him, and when that last soul comes to repentance that God promised to Jesus, it's all over baby.

So in fact unbelievers owe their very existence to the continued presence of Christians on this planet. But since there is no respect for God, Christians certainly know there will be no respect given them, in fact their future lot is to be hated and hunted as things wind down to the return of the Owner that built this house for Himself and fully intends to dwell in it.