See that's my point. Regardless of what I add to it, it's still a cup of coffee.
To you.
To someone else, it would be a cup of coffee, with "a lot of cream and a truck load of sugar, along with an ice cube to cool it down."
Without those descriptors, someone could make the mistake of thinking it a cup of coffee with small to medium amounts of cream and sugar...Then upon taking a sip...
The point I’m trying to make is that using such a general description method is fine when dealing with coffee (at least, if referring to your own cup), but when describing a nation, more accuracy is necessary.
Oh let me turn that on you and ask if you think the 76% of the US population who are Christian enjoy being told they're in a secular nation :mrgreen:
They are.
But at the same time, as Tucker has pointed out, they are also a Christian nation.
Would you not agree that most Christians consider themselves separate from non-Christians? For that matter, some Christian sub-sects consider themselves separate from other Christians, not to mention all other religions.
So they are members of the nation known as the USA, and then also members of the nation of Christianity specifically within the USA, and then also members of the nation of (specific sect of Christianity) specifically within the nation of Christianity specifically within the USA……….
You get the idea.
Their free to move to any of those Atheist nations if they choose.
Did I specify atheists?
I have a friend who is a “Pagan” (specifically, the old Norse gods and such), and nearly a full-blown socialist. He’s also enough of an anti-Christian (due in part to negative experiences with “Christians”) that I’m positive lumping him into a “Christian nation” would piss him off.