The debate will never end, but one thing needs to be perfectly clear just the same: the United States is a Christian nation. It was founded by Christians on essentially Christian principles.
Freedom of religion? A Christian concept.
The majority of our Founders? Christian, or at least Deist.
The Declaration of Independence refers to 'Laws of Nature and Nature's God' entitling the people their right and concludes (in part) 'with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence'.
The money says In God We Trust.
There are prayers before sessions of Congress.
Presidents regularly end televised addresses 'and God Bless America'.
We could go on, but this is ample evidence.
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The majority of the population is Christian.
It's still a nation founded on principles of religious freedom and separation of Church and State.
The Declaration of Independence is a wonderful document that I cite regularly, but it's flowery poetry--a letter, not a legal document. It's statement of self-evident equality largely excludes women by modern use of the language, and that's not (necessarily) by design.
And prayer and the other stuff is not exclusively Christian, thought admittedly it is exclusive to non-Atheist religious.
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