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The United States is not a Christian Nation

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The Founding Documents of the United States are Secular

Most founding fathers were Deists and/or Supported a Secular Government

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist and Supported a Secular Government

George Washington was a Deist and Supported a Secular Government

Benjamin Franklin supported a secular government and was not a religious person.

John Adams was a deist and supported a secular government

The United States has a history of reaffirming its non Christian identity

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10/03/10	John Adams	The United States is not a Christian Nation
	Letter to Thomas Jefferson
	I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved-- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
04/22/76	Thomas Jefferson	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786
	What is it men cannot be made to believe!
01/17/25	Thomas Jefferson	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825
	It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.
12/08/22	Thomas Jefferson	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	Jefferson wrote to James Smith 1822
	The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful, and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites
07/10/22	James Madison	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	James Madison: Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
	Religion & Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
07/10/22	James Madison	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	James Madison: Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
	We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
01/01/22	Thomas Jefferson	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
	Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
12/03/21	James Madison	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	James Madison: Letter to F. Schaeffer, December 3, 1821
	The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.
04/13/20	Thomas Jefferson	The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...	Written
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
	Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.
12/27/16	John Adams	The United States is not a Christian Nation	Written
	letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816
	As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?