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one who expects or wants me or you to do that, Mr. Ebom. That is a canard. Fm sure you will agree that there is a difference between acknowledging and understanding < if not respecting! the fact that others believe differently, and the assumption that they wish you to contradict your core beliefs. No one has ever insisted on that to me, and if they did, they’d better duck.
Now as to whether or not “this is a Christian nation,” as Mr. Ebom insists, I would agree that a majority of Americans would identify themselves as Christians. (Whether or not they actually practice Christianity will be left to a Higher Judge. > But that does not mean that we are a “Christian Nation.” It means we are a nation of mostly Christians. The difference is more than grammatical. That difference is basic to the tenets the founders intended and indeed imbedded in our founding documents.
It was the intent of Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Madison and other of the writers of the Declaration and the Constitution to create a nation where all of us would be free to think and worship as we pleased, without the state’s involvement in our spiritual life and without a national church controlling our political life. It has worked out pretty well for 232 years and if it ain’t broke I don’t think we need to fix it.
Mr. Ebom writes, “This nation was founded on the belief in God Almighty.” No doubt there was enormous Faith in the rebel cause, but no doubt the British Army and the American Tories believed in God Almighty also. England was in fact, a real “Christian Nation" with a National Church, which is one reason so many fled to America.
One man’s “truth” is another man’s “blasphemy,” someone else’s “superstition.”
W’ould it somehow be self-righteous at this point to suggest that we all simply respect one another’s paths to the Almighty? Christ didn’t say “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you unless of course you think they are pagans and heathens.” There was no asterisk on that one.
Back when this Christian was being called a heathen and pagan by some political opponents, I responded with a verse from the Sermon on the Mount:
“Judge not that ye not he judged;
For with what judgment ye judge.
Ye shall be judged...
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye,
But considereth not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
They quieted down for a while.
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