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John McCain Says US Is A Christian Nation

The above video shows various clips of John McCain voicing his opinion on the US being a Christian Nation, it needing to remain that way, and his views on what the founding fathers believed. I’m amazed that one of our two only candidates for president knows so little about our country’s history. Let’s break it down.

1. The constitution establishes that the US is a Christian nation. A recent poll done by The First Amendment Center shows that 55% of Americans also believe this. But is it true? The constitution makes no mention of God or Christianity at all and various quotes from the founding fathers insinuate that this was a purposeful omission. Our constitution gives us freedom of religion, granting all religions equal consideration. How far from establishing a Christian nation can you get?

2. He says that when deciding who the new president should be, citizens should make sure to choose someone who will uphold the Christian beliefs that this country was founded on. However, if he’s right and the founding fathers meant for this to be a Christian nation, even going so far as to write it into the constitution, why is it even possible for a non-Christian person to run for president? He even goes on to say that in the end it’s the people’s choice but he would prefer someone of his own faith. It sounds to me like he has his own ideas of what he wishes this nation was and what he wishes the founding fathers wanted. The fact that his wishes have no basis in reality doesn’t seem to phase him any.

3. And we get to the first statement (of a few) that he wants to make but is afraid to say bluntly. He feels that his religion is marginally better than others. That his religion, Christianity, is the only religion with the right values and morals. And that anyone who doesn’t hold these same values and morals isn’t fit to run the country.

4. And another statement that he would like to say outright but knows that he can’t get away with. “We welcome the tired, the poor and the hungry masses, but when they come here, they should, they know that they’re in a nation founded on Christian principles.” He almost said what he really wanted to say but stopped himself ALMOST in time. I feel that what he wanted to say was when they get here, they should adopt the religion of the country. I think it’s very dangerous to have these fanatical Christians in high positions of power when it seems like their ultimate goal is a theocracy.

5. The next few things he says really don’t have a bearing on his argument. He’s right, the founding fathers didn’t want a state imposed religion and they also didn’t intend for the separation of church and state to imply that there was no place for a higher power. Though I do have to recognize that this statement is cut off at the end so he may go on to say that they didn’t mean to imply that there was no place for a higher power in our government. If this is the case I would have to disagree, as I feel that is exactly what they intended when they wrote these words.

“There shall be no interference whatsoever of the sacred religious feelings in State affairs and politics.”

6. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The founding fathers did not emphasize the Christian principle. Many of our founding fathers weren’t Christian at all, they were Deists. This article is already going a tad bit too long so I won’t post the evidence here but it is out there. Do a google search for the religion of the founding fathers and you’ll get days worth of reading material.

His first example of the founding fathers emphasizing the Christian principle… In God We Trust. Pure ignorance on his part. In God We Trust didn’t become the official national motto until 1956. It wasn’t placed on our money until 1864 and was done so largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the American Civil War, after years of pressure from religious leaders. The original motto adopted in 1782 was E Pluribus Unum, (”from many, one”). So our founding fathers adopted a national motto that inspired the bringing of people together, and had no mention of god or religion at all.

And his second example… all men are created equal. This is just funny and ironic on so many levels. Yes, the founding fathers did say that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. However, since they had differing religions, they also had differing ideas of who/what that creator was, they wouldn’t have been talking about only the Christian god. And the reason I think it’s funny is because they didn’t even mean what they said. What they really meant here was that all white male property owners were created equal. IMO, not a very good example to use.

The majority of what he says here has no basis in fact. He is taking his fantasy of what he would like this country to be and molding it into a reality that doesn’t exist. However, I fear that if we keep getting right-wing fundamentalist Christians in office, they will eventually mold this country into what they want it to be. A theocracy.

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