"The United States is a Christian-founded nation"

[A Theist]

Many of the founding fathers like Jefferson and Franklin were certainly deists but we were culturally Christian long before the Founding Fathers were born and long before America became a nation, and we continue to be, for the present. In fact, though Franklin considered himself a deist, he also believed that if our nation was to survive the people had to be virtuous and that organized religion was necessary to keep men good to their fellow men...though he rarely attended church himself.

Wikipedia

Like the other advocates of republicanism, Franklin emphasized that the new republic could survive only if the people were virtuous. All his life he explored the role of civic and personal virtue, as expressed in Poor Richard's aphorisms. Franklin felt that organized religion was necessary to keep men good to their fellow men, but rarely attended religious services himself

The 19th century English commentator on American culture, Lord Brice wrote,

Christianity [in its evangelical Protestant form] is in fact understood to be, though not the legally established religion, yet the national religion.

...In short, America had acquired, as any culture must, a civil religion..."Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform" - the late William G. McLoughlin, professor of History at Brown University.

That fact that our national heritage is culturally Christian was reflected in many of our States Constitutions which contained religious clauses. Those constitutions required that a candidate seeking political office had to profess faith in God and be of the Protestant Christian religion...though some of those constitutions stated that an active clergyman or a pastor who was fulfilling his duties to the church could not hold public office

in example of many States Constitutions...
http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/state.html

Delaware; Article 22 (1776) "Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust...shall...also make and subscribe the following declaration, to whit:

'I,_____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration'"

Our nation is culturally Christian.

Richard Dawkins, Scientist and leading Atheist also recognizes and embraces the Christian culture in Great Britain, obviously he doesn't feel that embracing the Christian culture conflicts with his scientific and atheist views...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/7136682.stm

Prof Dawkins, who has frequently spoken out against creationism and religious fundamentalism, replied: "I'm not one of those who wants to stop Christian traditions.

"This is historically a Christian country. I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

"So, yes, I like singing carols along with everybody else. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Question: Do those of you who profess no belief in God feel as Richard Dawkins does, that being a "Cultural Christain" does not conflict with atheism? After all, being a cultural Christian in the way that Dawkins believes is not requiring a belief in God.