America is NOT a Christian Nation

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On a daily basis we lie to, hassle, hustle, persecute, degrade, judge, kill, leave to starve, and envy not only our fellow American, but we do these things to the man sitting right next to us, but “In God We Trust,” right? Wrong! How can we possibly claim to be a Christian nation when we have been through hundreds of years of religious rights violations, when we have people who are in diar need but no one as a whole no one cares enough about them, and when the African-American species faces endangerment.

The basis of the Pilgrims leaving Europe and coming to America was for religious freedom! Multiple different religions in our “God fearing” nation have been shutout or cast down simply because of their right to believe in a higher being. In saying this, it must be safe to assume that religious freedom was NOT the sole reason because ever since the dust, from Europe to the “West Indies” settled, our ancestors began to tell different religious sects what they could and could not do to worship their own omnipresent deity. Even as the Pilgrims arrived full of the hatred that the religious oppressions had brought them, one of their goals was to convert Native Americans to Christianity! As our colonies became a unified nation, we began passing laws that varied religions from their normal rituals of worship. Henry Louis Mencken said, “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.” (Leray, 2014) Thomas Jeffereson said, “I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.” (Petrie, 2014) These two quotes make the point that even though we the people, “one nation under God,” are completely severed ...

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... ourselves and could care even less if the next man lives or dies! We claim to be religious or Christian on fouding promises but continuously restrict those promises due to race, gender, sexual preference, and religion! This, simply and surely, is why America is not a Christian nation.

Works Cited

Lieberman, Joseph I. “Religious Democracy” BYU Magazine. Accessed at
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Leray, Anna. Class Lecture. Accessed 2/13/14 at American Government at Aberdeen High School at Aberdeen, Mississippi
Petrie, John. “John Petrie’s collection of Thomas Jefferson Quotes” accessed 2/18/14 http://jpetrie.myweb.edu/TJ.html
Starr, Bernard. “ ‘Love Your Neighbor as Yourself’: Failing Grade for Religious America” Huffington Post. 10/3/13 at

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