[henderson field]

I must disagree with your assertion that this country is not as it is due to the influence of the Christian, and specifically the Protestant religion ("a country without a king, a church without a pope"). The Founders were Protestants almost without exception. The Protestant ethic infuses everything that is American. The United States could not have been formed in the way it was, for example, by Muslims. Those who elect to maintain their own foreign religion upon arriving here are only provisional Americans.

[stuartcr]

Of course it couldn't have been formed by Muslims, it also couldn't have been formed by Jews, Janists, Buddhist or Hindus...it was formed by white europeans, which happen to have been Christians. What makes this country great is the fact that there are self-evident truths to human nature...not Christian, not any religion, but truths given to us by God, with no affiliation to any religion created by man.