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Because Americas founding fathers where christain does that automatically make America a Christan nation?

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every person that has claimed this in the past has shown a total lack of understanding of history and just what our founding fathers believed in. But i could be wrong, pleas explain.

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The United States is predominantly Protestant.  If you ask the Pope, Protestants aren't Christians.  If you ask historians, the Founding Fathers were Deists and Masons, not Christians.  The country was founded on the freedom to practice your own religion, whatever that may be.  People who search for a link to Christianity seem to think that you can't be moral unless you are Christian.

I would like to believe that Christianity always has a civilizing effect on people.  Then I see the treatment Native Americans received at the hands of so-called Christians, not to mention the slave trade, the lynchings of blacks, and the atrocities committed during the Crusades and the Inquisition.
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A great many people will say that America is a Christian nation, and maybe it is! But that shouldn't matter as long as all of its people are represented, whether they be Christian or non-Christian!

The separation of Church and State should be practiced, but it is not, and until it is, we won't have a truly multi-cultural nation, as we have so often portrayed ourselves to be!

As for what they founding fathers believed, only they knew that for sure! Some of them owned slaves! So what does that make them stand for? Did they love freedom more than their slaves did? So in the long run, what they believed, had little to do with  getting the constitution written! They had good ideas, it was just getting them implemented that mattered!

Our motto is "In God We Trust'!  Let that be enough! It is for me!
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Just because we were founded on christian values that doesn't make you a christian. It is not a birth right,it is choice.
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It just means that this nation was founded on christian beliefs.
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The Founding Fathers SPECIFICALLY stated that this is not a nation based upon christianity or any other religion in the US Constitution. The very idea that this is a christian nation flies in the face of every principle the Constituion stands for.
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ofcourse. exactly
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No, anymore than since they were all white men, this country is automatically a white male nation.

The U.S. was founded upon Christian values (which are pretty much universal ones) but not founded as a Christian nation.
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The founding fathers were almost all masons but that doesn't make us a Masonic Nation any more than it makes us a Christian nation.

In fact, it was actually a masonic principle that made us a religiously tolerant nation and hence not a Christian Nation.  The freedom of religion as well as most of the Bill of Rights were masonic principles.

In the tradional sense,  a "Christian nation" would mean that that was the state sponsored if not the state required religion, hence I go back to the freedom of religion.

In another sense, because the *majority* of citizens proclaim christianity as their religion, one could make the case that it is a Christian Nation, but not in the traditional sense and not in a legal sense.

Neither could, as per the Constitution, it become a Pagan nation, nor a Muslim nation.  The constitution protects all to practice their religion, but does not allow them to trample the religions of others in the process.
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They were Deists, meaning they believed in God but didn't recognize Jesus as a Christian would.

This nation was founded on good citizenship, not Christianity as such.
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Most of the founding fathers were both Unitarians and Masons. Does that make this country one founded upon secret societies and religious cults?
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I think our country was founded with Common Sense and Good Heart, but we have the freedom of religion.

As told the founding fathers were a majority of Masons, and a perquisite to become a Mason is the faith in a Supreme Being. Many religions are governed under that belief; not just Christianity.
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Not only were the founding fathers different faiths, several were atheists. They had vivid memories of church-run governments in England, France, and elsewhere.Their intent was to have a country run without church-dictatorship.
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No, they founded the country on the basis that all and any religion shall live in freedom in America.
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