[ClearCase_guy]

I do wish that the Constitution had declared the US to be a Christian nation.

I believe one of the points of the First Amendment is that we did not want sectarian fighting between Christian denominations. We did not want to argue about whether the government-supported church would be Lutheran or Methodist. We wanted Congress to make no laws on this issue.

But declaring a national sense of the US being a Christian nation would have helped us, I think.

[Wallace T.]

There was an attempt that began in the Civil War era to add a “Christian amendment” to the U.S. Constitution. The wording of the proposed amendment would have acknowledged the Bible as being authoritative, God as the source of all power in civil government, and Jesus Christ as ruler of all nations. It was largely supported by Presbyterians. Opposition came from different sources: Unitarians and other liberals; Catholics; Baptist, Methodist, and other churches of nonconformist or pietist origins. These disparate groups believed the “Christian amendment” would lead to the establishment of a Presbyterian or Episcopal state church and restriction of religious freedom.