gallen asked: I've often wondered if an appropriate rebuttal to someone blathering on about how the US is a Christian nation wold be "If you have to assign any one religion on the US, it was actually formed as a deist nation."

That’d probably go too far. Some were Christians in a modern evangelical sense. Some were Quaker. Some were Deists. Some were Jewish. Some were Catholics.

They were people who wanted to create a space for human beings to practice their religious values as they saw fit (accepting that the range of religious practice at the time was not as diverse as it is now).

It was an amazing moment of religious tolerance. One that we simply fail to live up to.

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7. joestanley said: Assuming the question is what the Founders intended the U.S. to be rather than what it is, I think another document Gallen could direct such people to is the Treaty of Tripoli, which explicitly states the U.S.’s desire not to be seen as a Christian nation.
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