[PatrickHenry]

But they weren't founded on Christ's teachings.

And the United States is? Really? I assume you can direct me to some site on the internet where there's a copy of the US Constitution with footnotes indicating where each significant passage can be traced to something Jesus said. Hint: don't bother looking, it doesn't exist. You can sit down with your Bible and your Constitution beside it, and you cannot find (without wild squirming and re-interpretation) any scriptural basis for our form of government. Read the Federalist Papers. They do not justify the Constitution's provisions on scriptural grounds. Why not? Because the Bible is essentially about monarchies, both on earth and in heaven.

[Tribune7]

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

--(take a guess):-)

[medved]

But they weren't founded on Christ's teachings.

And the United States is? Really?

It was originally. Alexis de Tocqueville noted that the United States was the first truly Christian country in that its laws and customs actually conformed more or less to the teachings of Jesus Christ. He noted that European nations while nominally Christian, were anything but Christian in their manner of government and in their customs.