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Some issues just never go away. They lurk on the edges of our national consciousness, occasionally returning to a spot under the lights.<\/p>\n

I have written a number of blogs on this venue about whether we live in a “Christian nation.” I concluded long ago that the founders deliberately left the word “Christian” out of our Constitution.<\/p>\n

Here’s a post from 2015:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/07\/a-christian-nation-never-have-been-one\/<\/p>\n

I suspect we’re going to be talking, maybe soon, about this issue once again. After all, the president who’s alleged to have had an affair with a porn queen has been courting the evangelical community since he began running for the office. I fully expect the evangelicals to talk about religion and their “faith” in the president.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I saw a tweet this morning that reminds us that Barack Obama and George W. Bush were faithful to their wives, but it took a serial philanderer who’s allegedly involved with a porn star to get evangelical Christians so energized.<\/p>\n

And somewhere along the line, someone is going to blurt out some nutty notion that the United States is a “Christian nation,” that it is rediscovering its Christian roots.<\/p>\n

I’ll say it again, just as I will say it now.<\/p>\n

Baloney!<\/em><\/p>\n

We aren’t a Christian nation. We are a nation founded by and large by men who adhered to Christian principles; many of them were men of faith who didn’t necessarily follow Jesus Christ’s teachings. Yes, there is a Judeo-Christian ethic written into the Constitution.<\/p>\n

However, the founders explicitly excluded any reference to Christianity in the nation’s founding document. Why? Because those men fled religious persecution from tyrants who demanded that they must believe a certain way. They came across the ocean intent on preserving people’s right to worship as they please — or not<\/em> worship if that is their choice.<\/p>\n

I am acutely aware that the founders didn’t craft a perfect document. It didn’t grant full citizenship rights to every living human being in this newly created country. But on the issue of the nation’s religiosity, they got it right.<\/p>\n

God bless those brave and wise men.<\/p>\n\n

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