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Is the US a Christian country?

Is the US a Christian Country?


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Apparently, you are a very unusual homosexual because most seem to have a great big problem with other people using the word "civil union" to describe homosexual unions. For whatever reason, your peers insist that only"marriage" will do. You should take their hangups over these words up with them.

Well i don't personally call it anything but marriage, but if they want to let it bother them that others call it "civil union" or "homarriage" (ontologuy is fond of this), that is their problem. Just like if you want to get upset that i call it "marriage", that's your problem.
 
Well i don't personally call it anything but marriage, but if they want to let it bother them that others call it "civil union" or "homarriage" (ontologuy is fond of this), that is their problem. Just like if you want to get upset that i call it "marriage", that's your problem.

I really hate to disappoint you so but you're not upsetting me no matter what you or anyone else calls it.
 
Yes, I know what is said about perception.

Maybe that's your problem. You don't care whether "what is said" is true or not. That's something I've noticed most America-bashes have in common.
 
Maybe that's your problem. You don't care whether "what is said" is true or not. That's something I've noticed most America-bashes have in common.

I forgot. Bashing only one party is American, bashing both is American hating. Lol. You're still stuck in the personal attack mode because you can't refute what was said above with any facts.
 
No, nor has it ever been. By design it can't be, the constitution basically doesn't allow it to be. We are a country where the majority are Christian but we are not a Christian nation. One quick look at out constitution, rights and laws prove that.

What the Constitution says is irrelevant on the matter... the people comprise the country, not the Constitution. The USA was also founded, and still is, a white country (population) as well.
 
The 1st amendment makes this question irrelevant.

Wrong as the question did not ask if we were a theocracy... now, answer the question within the context of how it was asked.
 
It is all in perception. Patrick Henry pretty well summed up all the comments and stated beliefs of the Founders on the subject when he said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.​

If you ask people to name the Muslim countries of the world, we would all rattle off most of the middle eastern countries plus others that we would easily recall.

If you ask people to name the Jewish countries of the world, we all would immediately name Israel.

If you ask people to name the Atheist countries of the world, most would name China and North Korea.

And if you ask people to name the Christian countries of the world, the USA would head the list followed by Canada, Mexico, all the central and South American countries, all of Europe, and many others.

Even in the most recent polls including all the big polling groups, more than 90% of Americans profess a belief in God and roughly 78% label themselves Christian. The next largest group are the no religion people and all the rest comprise very low percentage.

In fact, we are THE MOST Christian country in the world with over 200 million Christians...
 
I'm surprised how many people can't grasp this.

Everything has to be a fight.


Our secular government doesn't change that culturally, we are a Christian nation. Doesn't change that our government is and must, to the end of time, remain secular.

Why people argue of the most inane things I will never know. I sometimes think that if I referred to a person's gender here they would argue that they are the opposite gender for some reason.
 
In fact, we are THE MOST Christian country in the world with over 200 million Christians...

I don't know how that would translate to a percentage of the population compared to other Christian nations. But when the religious designation of a country is commonly based on a substantial majority in that country, then absolutely we are a Christian nation.
 
I'm surprised how many people can't grasp this.

Everything has to be a fight.

Our secular government doesn't change that culturally, we are a Christian nation. Doesn't change that our government is and must, to the end of time, remain secular.

I hear ya, but man you should have heard Obama's sermon at the prayer breakfast this morning.
 
Oh come now. You think that people started hooking up only after Henry the 8th made a church?

No. What?

My point was and is that Henry VIII took marriage from a social construct to a government license by separating from the Catholic Church and creating a theocracy. Had he not done that, we might not even have religion mentioned in the first amendment or governments that regulate marriage. That's my point.
 
In other words - which religious club that is a complete and total waste of time is the one frequented by the most Americans? That would be the Christian club.


Btw, have I mentioned that every sane adult that is in these clubs is either weak and/or ignorant and/or desperate?

To change your life in any meaningful way because of a book that claims to be the words of some 'God', written by someone thousands of years ago, that is all based on hearsay and leap-of-faithing is the height of ridiculousness, imo.

When I think at how many people actually fall for these religious clubs it certainly helps explain how roughly 65% administered the final shocks in the Milgram experiments...because most people are staggeringly weak and love being told what to think and do.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Sad.
 
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No. What?

My point was and is that Henry VIII took marriage from a social construct to a government license by separating from the Catholic Church and creating a theocracy. Had he not done that, we might not even have religion mentioned in the first amendment or governments that regulate marriage. That's my point.

Governments should have NOTHING to do with marriage.

Of course, I think the concept of marriage is utter nonsense...but that is another story.
 
Governments should have NOTHING to do with marriage.

Of course, I think the concept of marriage is utter nonsense...but that is another story.

Lol, I agree. But I won't tell you why here! ;)
 
I'm not sure that it's possible to have a Christian country on the Earth. A Christian's citizenship is in heaven. His Supreme Commander is God alone. God is his judge. God is his lawgiver.
 
I will quote obama'''' a bible in one hand and a gun in the other!!!!
 
I'm not sure that it's possible to have a Christian country on the Earth. A Christian's citizenship is in heaven. His Supreme Commander is God alone. God is his judge. God is his lawgiver.

This is why I don't really trust devout Christians to be in a position of leadership in our country. Their citizenship is heaven, not the United States. Their law is biblical law, not American law. Their first loyalty is to a god, not to the people they represent. Those qualities are incompatible with the responsibilities of elected leadership.
 

As a Christian myself the answer is NOPE, never has been never will be and if it ever does then its no longer america its something else

I think the real issue is that some people define Christian nation differently. . .
some think that just because the majority of americans are christian thats enough . . . and thats fine if that all they feel it takes but many others think of a christian nation as a nation being run by Christianity or that Christianity has some upper hierarchy or power above all else . . . .that is not the case in the US

we are a nation filled with a majority of Christians
our history has been influenced by Christianity as it has been influenced by every piece of our culture thats just natural

we are not a christian nation but are a nation filled with Christian
 
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