Six in 10 U.S. adults said the founders intended America to be a Christian nation, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey. About 45% said the U.S. should be a Christian nation. Four in five white evangelical Protestants agreed with each assertion.
Which is just flat wrong, of course, and doesn’t really need any debate: it just was not founded as a xtian nation, and that was quite intentional. But that’s the level of stupidity we are dealing with.
And something like 45% of the country WANT this country to be a xtian nation, which is also depressing.
Yeah, a depressing amount of Americans believe this country was founded as a xtian one. 60%
https://apnews.com/article/american-founders-christian-nation-conservative-beliefs-4ea388e8d80c54016a6a4460cbef9b82
Which is just flat wrong, of course, and doesn’t really need any debate: it just was not founded as a xtian nation, and that was quite intentional. But that’s the level of stupidity we are dealing with.
And something like 45% of the country WANT this country to be a xtian nation, which is also depressing.
Half the founding fathers were closet atheists using ‘Deism’ as a fig leaf.