Is America a Christian nation?

Yakuda said:
You confuse Christian nation with theocracy. Dont be silly, no one is suggesting that and no one wants that. The fact is the founders claimed they had right from a creator that no monarch or govt could take away from us. Their Christianity guided their actions. A Christian nation not a theocracy
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The acknowledgement of a Creator = Christianity?

So tell us, what to you, is the difference between a Theocracy and a "Christian" (fill in the blank, and religion) nation?
 
Yakuda said:
You haven't shown it isn't a Christian nation other than you claiming it.

The founders werent muzzies, they weren't jews some were deists and most were christian. The assertion they made for independence from England was based on the fact that a creator gave human being rights that monarchs and govts can't take away without our consent.
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This is a problem of definition.... You are defining "Christian Nation" differently than they is. So, tell us... what do you mean by "Christian Nation"?
 
Yakuda said:
You haven't shown it isn't a Christian nation other than you claiming it.

The founders werent muzzies, they weren't jews some were deists and most were christian. The assertion they made for independence from England was based on the fact that a creator gave human being rights that monarchs and govts can't take away without our consent.
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But in the thought of the day, the Monarchs were not separated from the deity. Devine right made the monarch the representative of God.
 
Jarod said:
The acknowledgement of a Creator = Christianity?

So tell us, what to you, is the difference between a Theocracy and a "Christian" (fill in the blank, and religion) nation?
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Not by itself but when acknowledged by mostly christians what else would it be?

It's not a matter of what I think

the·oc·ra·cy
/THēˈäkrəsē/

noun
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
 
Jarod said:
What did the founders mean when they prohibited the Government from "Respecting the establishment of religion?"
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No State Religion like the Church of England or the Catholic Church in all other Euro countries of the time.

BTW, Ms. Moon wants a theocracy; the Muslim Caliphate.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Caliphate
Caliphate, the political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death (632 CE) of the Prophet Muhammad. Ruled by a caliph (Arabic khalīfah, “successor”), who held temporal and sometimes a degree of spiritual authority, the empire of the Caliphate grew rapidly through conquest during its first two centuries to include most of Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Spain. Dynastic struggles later brought about the Caliphate’s decline, and it ceased to exist as a functioning political institution with the Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258.
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Yakuda said:
Not by itself but when acknowledged by mostly christians what else would it be?

It's not a matter of what I think

the·oc·ra·cy
/THēˈäkrəsē/

noun
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
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I think they intentionally left it vague to suggest the Creator as, whoever that may be. Christians can, and often do, acknowledge other religions and the possibility of their divinity.

The "Creator" in Judaism and Islam is generally considered by most theologians as the same God of Abraham, the same entity. the founders clearly knew that as they were very educated men... so we must assume they chose not to define the God as being "Jesus" but the SAME creator of at least those three religions.

Had they used the word "Jesus" instead of "Creator" I would agree with you.

They used "Creator" and they knew that could include many different religious and even non-religious groups.
 
Jarod said:
I think they intentionally left it vague to suggest the Creator as, whoever that may be. Christians can, and often do, acknowledge other religions and the possibility of their divinity.

The "Creator" in Judaism and Islam is generally considered by most theologians as the same God of Abraham, the same entity. the founders clearly knew that as they were very educated men... so we must assume they chose not to define the God as being "Jesus" but the SAME creator of at least those three religions.

Had they used the word "Jesus" instead of "Creator" I would agree with you.

They used "Creator" and they knew that could include many different religious and even non-religious groups.
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Good point but in Christianity Jesus is God, the creator, the word incarnate.
 
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