Christian Nation???

And now...   My Rant...  My Opinion... My Thoughts....
 
Try to remember, I am not angry!  I just want to set the facts strait.
Now imagine me smoking my peace pipe while I speak this writing.  I am not angry, and I am not hurt.  I am quite peaceful, tolerant, and above all, happy to be in our country with you.  I write this quickly as I am fading to sleep, but I want to do my due diligence in setting what I feel is a fundamental error in American politics and popular thinking.
 
I'd like to correct misconception...  

WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION!!!!!!  

We are a nation formed by people, in many cases, who came here looking for the freedom to practice religion free from persecution.  Remember Roger Williams, The Mayflower, and Jamestown Virginia?  All wanted to start fresh from persecution from the Catholic Church, the English Anglican Church, and Lutheranism.

"If the U.S. was founded on the Christian religion, the Constitution would clearly say so--but it does not. Nowhere does the Constitution say: "The United States is a Christian Nation", or anything even close to that. In fact, the words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, Creator, Divine, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution-- not even once. Nowhere in the Constitution is religion mentioned, except in exclusionary terms. When the Founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3)   This provision was radical in its day-- giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike.  They wanted to ensure that no religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had."  (Found at: http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html)

I spent 20 years defending the document that separated Church and State because of that reason.  Our Constitutionally Guaranteed Freedom of Religion assures each and every one of us UNITED STATES CITIZENS that we may practice any religion we choose!! Or not to practice as I choose.   

Take a look at any fully Islamic country that is governed by Sharia Law.  In that country it really sucks to be Christian, or Jew, or female, or handicapped, opinionated, or weaponless for that matter.  Just ask that 14 year old girl that got shot on the bus, by a bunch of Armed, Illiterate, Intolerant, Fundamentalist, Islamist thugs parading around as Taliban.  

Do you get my point??? Religious tolerance is the key, not religious unity.

Quotes on religion: (Googled them all)

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity."
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”
- George Washington

“Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men”
- Voltaire

“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” - Leo Tolstoy

Think about this... Please!  Too many people have been killed in the name of religion.  There is no religion, that is free from this either.  Even the very supposition that someone named Jesus died for my sins makes no sense to me at all!

Good night folks!!

I love you!

Campy Out!