Is America a Christian Nation?

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Is America a Christian Nation?

  • Yes, and it was intended to be such by the Founding Fathers.

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • Not anymore, but it was initially intended to be such by the Founding Fathers

    Votes: 14 34.1%
  • It may be in terms of population, but not in terms of laws -- separation of Church and State.

    Votes: 8 19.5%
  • Absolutely not -- many of the Founding Fathers were not Christian, and saw the dangers of mixing pol

    Votes: 18 43.9%

  • Total voters
    41

zone

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#81
I think that may have been a popular view in the 70s perhaps even with Russia as the beast. But the reality is somewhat different than that. Here's how Darby's "Revived Roman Empire" is fairing today:

"Muslims in Europe are increasingly converting empty Christian churches into mosques.
The proliferation of mosques housed in former churches reflects the rise of Islam as the fastest growing religion in post-Christian Europe."

"As Islam replaces Christianity as the dominant religion in Europe, more and more churches are set to become mosques, which increasingly serve not only as religious institutions but also function as the foundational political building blocks for the establishment of separate, parallel Muslim communities in Europe that are based on Islamic Sharia law."
Falling Away or Apostasy

Christianity
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Demographics

Further information: Christianity by country and Christian population growth
See also: Christendom


The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat. Armenia was the first state to adopt Christianity as the state religion in AD 301.[123]


Countries with 50% and more Christians are colored purple while countries with 10% to 50% Christians are colored pink.


Nations with Christianity as their state religion:

Orthodox Christianity
Protestantism and Anglicanism
Catholicism

With around 2.2 billion adherents,[19][20][21] split into 3 main branches of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, Christianity is the world's largest religion.[170] The Christian share of the world's population has stood at around 33% for the last hundred years, which says that one in three persons on earth are Christians. This masks a major shift in the demographics of Christianity; large increases in the developing world (around 23,000 per day) have been accompanied by substantial declines in the developed world, mainly in Europe and North America (around 7,600 per day).[171] It is still the predominant religion in Europe, the Americas and Southern Africa. In Asia, it is the dominant religion in Georgia, Armenia, East Timor and the Philippines.[172] However, it is declining in many areas including the Northern and Western United States,[173] Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), northern Europe (including Great Britain,[174] Scandinavia and other places), France, Germany, the Canadian provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec, and parts of Asia (especially the Middle East,[175][176][177] South Korea,[178] Taiwan,[179] The Philippines[citation needed] and Macau[180]). The Christian population is not decreasing in Brazil, the Southern United States[181] and the province of Alberta, Canada,[182] but the percentage is decreasing. In countries such as Australia[183] and New Zealand,[184] the Christian population are declining in both numbers and percentage. Despite the declining numbers, Christianity remains the dominant religion in the Western World, where 70% are Christians,[22] in Europe 76.2% of the population considering themselves Christians,[185] and 86.0% of the Americas[186] and 73.36% in Oceania still practice Christianity.[22]

However, there are many charismatic movements that have become well established over large parts of the world, especially Africa, Latin America and Asia.[187][188][189][190][191] A leading Saudi Arabian Muslim leader Sheikh Ahmad al Qatanni reported on Aljazeera that every day 16,000 African Muslims convert to Christianity. He claimed that Islam was losing 6 million African Muslims a year to becoming Christians,[192][193][194][195][196] including Muslims in Algeria,[197] France,[197] Iran,[198] India,[197] Morocco,[197] Russia,[197] and Turkey,[197][199] and Central Asia.[200][201] It is also reported that Christianity is popular among people of different backgrounds in India (mostly Hindus),[202] and Malaysia,[203] Mongolia,[204] Nigeria,[205] Vietnam,[206] Singapore,[207] Indonesia,[208][209] China,[210] Japan,[211] and South Korea.[212]

In most countries in the developed world, church attendance among people who continue to identify themselves as Christians has been falling over the last few decades.[213] Some sources view this simply as part of a drift away from traditional membership institutions,[214] while others link it to signs of a decline in belief in the importance of religion in general.[215]

Christianity, in one form or another, is the sole state religion of the following nations: Costa Rica (Roman Catholic),[216] Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran),[217] El Salvador (Roman Catholic),[218] England (Anglican),[219] Finland (Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox),[220][221] Georgia (Georgian Orthodox),[222] Greece (Greek Orthodox),[218] Iceland (Evangelical Lutheran),[223] Liechtenstein (Roman Catholic),[224] Malta (Roman Catholic),[225] Monaco (Roman Catholic),[226] and Vatican City (Roman Catholic).[227]

There are numerous other countries, such as Cyprus, which although do not have an established church, still give official recognition to a specific Christian denomination.[228]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity#Demographics < click

oh ye of little faith..and of great propaganda.
 
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Powemm

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#83
America messed up the "very moment" the very "instant" it separated itself as a"believing" nation, *and labeled itself as *a Christian nation..*
The moment this was done it took *on *it's own identity .. forming it's own government , currency, and social orders ..*
God has allowed her to build herself up...*
old old buildings have a very good story to tell ..*
in the beginning .. Everything looks perfect , sturdy Rock shape it's form.. However ..erosion over time begins taking place ..
"Specks" begin to fall without notice ., then soon larger pieces Wich catch an eye.. * Manual labor begins the repairs ., building back up the structure, *Wich has now *become an idol.. the structure then *becomes a beast, *consuming it's laborers because if it's need to be maintained.. the laborers no longer own the building , the building now owns *the laborers. *
God will make America a believing nation again. She hasn't wondered off quite far enough yet ..*
if one looks, *the concrete of her structure is coming off in small chips ..this has been going in for a while .. Larger pieces are soon to follow .. Unfortunately ..*
It won't be until mass destruction of infrastructures takes place that she will even begin to look and see her body is falling apart ..Her adrenaline will kick in first, she will *fight for her life.. without ever thinking *about calling on *God for help..
The cells within the body will look to the wrong *leaders in *their *own outcry.
To what they have said from long ago" is their head.."
God will bring America back around to" believing" Him.. Some things must first take place .. **


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Powemm

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#84
39*“After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. 40*Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41*Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42*As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43*And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

44*“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45*This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
 

cavil51

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jerusalem

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#87
the third president of the united states wrote the basis for seperation of church and state ...meaning that the government would not have legal jurisdiction over matters of faith.....jefferson was so proud of this achievement that he had it commemorated on his tombstone INSTEAD of commemorating his presidency. looking a little deeper would answer alot of these questions. our history has been rewritten by our modern government
 
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jerusalem

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#88
check out american minute.com truth in history via the faith in history broadcast there are other sites as well
 
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one percent of Americans are normal Christian believers. The remaining 99% of american "nation" are: degenerates and subhumans - homosexuals, blacks, Hispanics, white whores, drug addicts, people who hate Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, anti-Russian, psychopaths, people brainwashed, fat mens & womans, etc. Nation of subhumans with simple minds.
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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#90
one percent of Americans are normal Christian believers. The remaining 99% of american "nation" are: degenerates and subhumans - homosexuals, blacks, Hispanics, white whores, drug addicts, people who hate Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, anti-Russian, psychopaths, people brainwashed, fat mens & womans, etc. Nation of subhumans with simple minds.
Yeah...well Jesus loves you too buddy! sheesh...not too judgmental are ya'? lol
 
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TomH

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#91
one percent of Americans are normal Christian believers. The remaining 99% of american "nation" are: degenerates and subhumans - homosexuals, blacks, Hispanics, white whores, drug addicts, people who hate Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, anti-Russian, psychopaths, people brainwashed, fat mens & womans, etc. Nation of subhumans with simple minds.


"In his pride, the wicked one is dashing after the humble; Let them be grabbed in the schemes that they have devised." (Psalms 10:2)


"They have closed their calloused heart; Their mouths have spoken in pride." (Psalms 17:10)


"Let false lips be muted, Those speaking with impertinence against the righteous, In pride and contempt." (Psalms 31:18)


"Love Yahweh, all His benign ones; The faithful, Yahweh is preserving, Yet He is repaying with a surplus The one dealing with pride." (Psalms 31:23)


"The fear of Yahweh means to hate evil; Pride and pomp and the way of evil And a mouth of duplicity I hate." (Proverbs 8:13)


"In the mouth of the foolish man is a switch for his pride, Yet the lips of the wise shall guard them." (Proverbs 14:3)


"Pride goes before a breaking, And a haughty spirit before a stumbling." (Proverbs 16:18)


"A man's pride abases him, Yet he who is lowly of spirit shall take firm hold of glory." (Proverbs 29:23)


"And I check over all the habitance for its evil, and on the wicked for their depravity. And I eradicate the pomp of the arrogant, and the pride of the terrifiers am I abasing." (Isaiah 13:11)


"Your terribleness has lifted you up, The pride of your heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For you make high as an eagle your nest, From thence I bring you down, An affirmation of Yahweh." (Jeremiah 49:16)


"Lo, I [am] against you, O pride, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh of Hosts, For your day has come, the time of your inspection. And stumbled has pride, And he has fallen, and has no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it has devoured all round about him." Jeremiah 50:31,32)


"In that day you shall not be ashamed of all your practices, in which you transgressed against Me, for then will I take away from within you those who are joyous in your pride, and you shall not continue further to be haughty in My holy mountain." (Zephaniah 3:11)


"That which is going out of a man, that is contaminating the man. For from inside, out of the heart of men, are going out evil reasonings, prostitutions, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, wickedness, guile, wantonness, a wicked eye, calumny, pride, imprudence. All these wicked inside things are going out; and those are contaminating the man." (Mark 7:20-23)
 
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Grey

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#92
Quite a few of the founding fathers were skeptical deists.
 
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#93
Well! Just kidding: Does America exist as a nation? There were "Estados Unidos de Mexico?... "Estados Unidos de Colombia" and "Estados Unidos de Venezuela"... I can assure you there are not "Estados Unidos de Venezuela" (Just to make clear there is not ONE America)