Mehmet -
The difference now is that few people in America know what it is like to come from a country where religious freedom isn't a truth. Nowadays, people take it for granted that they won't be slain for being a Catholic in a Protestant nation or vice-versa.
When the US was formed, it wasn't far off from political and religious turmoil sweeping across Britain and Europe. Whatever the founding fathers believed or didn't believe, they knew for damn sure they didn't want one religious group having precedence over another. To state that it was a Christian nation would have meant then to further concede to being a Baptist or a Methodist or a Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Quaker nation - or any number of weirdo sects cropping up at the time. Who makes that decision? Better to keep the nation secular and your religion "private."
The difference now is that few people in America know what it is like to come from a country where religious freedom isn't a truth. Nowadays, people take it for granted that they won't be slain for being a Catholic in a Protestant nation or vice-versa.
When the US was formed, it wasn't far off from political and religious turmoil sweeping across Britain and Europe. Whatever the founding fathers believed or didn't believe, they knew for damn sure they didn't want one religious group having precedence over another. To state that it was a Christian nation would have meant then to further concede to being a Baptist or a Methodist or a Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Quaker nation - or any number of weirdo sects cropping up at the time. Who makes that decision? Better to keep the nation secular and your religion "private."
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