Religion In America Essay

The United States has always been closely tied with religion from its first settlers who fled to America to escape religious persecution to modern day where the motto still remains, “In God We Trust” on all government money, the words “under god” are spoken everyday nationwide in our national pledge, and religious zealots are some of the most listened voices in politics. Since the United States of America does not have an official national religion and promises freedom of religion without discrimination, the continued prevalence of religion, most commonly Protestantism or Catholicism, continues to discriminate against people of all religions or no religions and allows for lawmakers to circumvent actual politics and evidence for religious rhetoric and arguments based exclusively on the words of the Bible rather than actual studies, evidence,

The United States government does not make a sufficient effort to stop religion from being a factor in political decisions, since for the most part Americans desire a certain level of religion to be a part of politics. Since the very first president of the United States, George Washington, every single president has been a Christian and whilst more people of Jewish descent have been running in recent years the likelihood of a non-Christian president in the immediate future remains to be seen. Americans continue to associate America and its ideals of freedom and liberty with Christianity, especially since Christianity represents the anti-Muslim ideology many citizens developed post-911. The United States has suffered setbacks in its ultimatum to expand democracy and freedom by being tied down to religious ideals that limit freedoms and break the rules set forth by Bill of Rights guaranteeing all people the ability the ability to express their religion or lack thereof and for their government to have separation of church and state whilst making political decisions meant to further the liberty and independence of