Should the US become a Christian Nation?

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I said most women who have abortions know it’s wrong. By 8 weeks 55% admit to regret. When have abortions they know it’s wrong. But with a Christian theocracy I am sure it would be harder to find an abortionist. For example the Vatican doesn’t have this problem.
 
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the fact that the US was founded on Christian values
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The USA was founded on principals of Democracy, Rebellion from the Monarchy and freedom from religious oppression. Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists, with a few Protestant Christians and a good number of Skeptics.

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

– John Adams

The Founding Fathers took great care that there would be no religious test for office, that there would be no official religion.
 
Actually, of the mainstream Protestant/nonCatholic Christian Denominations, most permit or allow for abortion, will use phrases like “a difficult decision”. The Assemblies of God, as far as I have researched, are the only Denomination who holds the same values as the Catholic Church WRT abortion.
 
The fact that Christmas has been a legal federal holiday in the US since 1870 goes part of the way toward making the US a Christian nation. Should it go all the way toward a Christian theocracy? Certainly not. That’s not what the US is all about. It is based on pluralism and a diversity of religious and political creeds, races, cultures, languages, and lifestyles. As the song says: “That’s America to me.”
 
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Hey bro. Make your monarchy. I’ll make mine. We’ll pledge to Rome. I’ll be your ally. Haha. That would be great. Ever watched Reign? I would live there.
 
Nope, that’s not all true. The writings contain Diest thoughts. It is difficult to determine which were diestists and which weren’t. Regardless, I still suggest we become more Christian as a nation. WHATEVER their beliefs the founders all came from Christian background, mostly Protestant and some Catholic like Charles and Daniel Carrol from MD and Thomas Fitzsimmons of PA were Roman Catholic. They were founding fathers who were Catholic.
 
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The deists that were our founding fathers were generally considered to have Judeo-Christian values. They just did not want organized religion and persecution. The writings contain Diest thoughts. It is difficult to determine which were diestists and which weren’t. Regardless, I still suggest we become more Christian as a nation. WHATEVER their beliefs the founders all came from Christian background, mostly Protestant and some Catholic like Charles and Daniel Carrol from MD and Thomas Fitzsimmons of PA were Roman Catholic.
 
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But with a Christian theocracy I am sure it would be harder to find an abortionist. For example the Vatican doesn’t have this problem.
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Not that impressive when you’re talking about a state that only covers 109 acres, is almost exclusively populated by men, and lies within a much larger country where abortion is legal.
 
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I was talking a little extreme for fun but everyone seemed so extremely against this. The author of this question never said theocracy, just that we be openely Christian. She also mentions not persucting other people’s.
 
Interesting information. Of course some of the Founding Fathers were also slaveowners. I don’t think we should emulate their behavior in this regard nor necessarily by means of their religious affiliations.
 
The US was a Christian nation. We had state religions, religious tests for office, and state funding and promotion of religion. This was all true under our current constitution. Eventually the courts invented the idea this was unconstitutional. That is preposterous since many of the original states had all the things they say are unconstitutional.

There is no such thing as a country without a religion. Some sort of philosophy will be imposed on people. The issue is how free are dissidents.

Currently the religion imposed on people is secular humanism. It is Christianity without Christ. At the same time the state is really anti-Christian. This is shown in the various attempts to remove prayer from public life, and abortion and homosexuality being imposed on people.

So to answer your question, yes, we should return to our roots and once again be a Christian nation.
 
I’m making the point that to use the religion or behavior of the Founding Fathers as a basis for our present-day behavior can be problematic.
 
Nope, that is not what you said!
LoganBryce said:
Most people who have abortions know that it is wrong
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And you are supposedly implying that they knew it was wrong beforehand.
I am curious about your statics too. Where did you get them?
 
I understand. My point was to show that most were not Deists.
 
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