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Did the First Amendment Create a Christian Nation?

eshrdlu Wrote: Aug 03, 2012 4:10 PM

Actually, precisely because we have separation of church and state we are NOT a "Christian Nation". We are a nation composed of many different religious beliefs. Thus, while demographically we are a majority Christian nation (though that's subdivided by denomination), we are also a Jewish Nation, a Muslim Nation, a Buddhist Nation, an Atheist Nation, an Agnostic Nation, etc. (my apologies to those I omitted for brevity's sake).

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Did the First Amendment Create a Christian Nation?

For as long as I can recall, there has been a movement defending the notion of America as a Christian nation. Of late, one version of that idea has been expressed by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association. His belief is that the First Amendment to the Constitution protects the free expression of Christians only. Adherents of non-Christian religions, on the other hand, may be tolerated but do not enjoy Constitutional protections for the free exercise of their faith. Fischer writes:

The leftwing political websites lit up over my column of last week in which I...

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