It's an indirect acknowledgement, but an acknowledgment nevertheless, from a Democrat presidential candidate that America at least used to be a Christian nation.
From CBN News, Senator Barak Obama:
"Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. We should acknowledge this and realize that when we're formulating policies from the state house to the Senate floor to the White House, we've got to work to translate our reasoning into values that are accessible to every one of our citizens, not just members of our own faith community."
Even if you accept the contention that we are "no longer" a Christian nation, which could definitely be argued in the present tense, to say that we are "no longer" a Christian nation acknowledges by default that we once were, regardless of how Obama tried to obscure that admission. Something can't be "no longer" unless it "once was."
Despite a tremendous assault for the past 50-60 years on America's Christian heritage, most people still call themselves Christians and believe the Christian Bible is the Word of God.
And contrary to Obama's assertion above, despite being founded on Christian principles, those principles which influenced our laws and our government have never experienced a deficit of accessibility even to people of other faiths. All have been welcome here, all have had the freedom to practice their own beliefs as guaranteed by the First Amendment, and all have agreed on the areas we have set down into law (sacredness of human life, property rights, principles of fairness and justice, etc. ).
Regardless of how we've allowed ourselves to get off track, the evidence is overwhelming that America was founded by Christians on Christian principles.
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