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NeoGreen

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Mon Jul 24, 2017, 08:14 AM Jul 2017

Is the U.S. a Christian Nation? Not At All, and This Video Explains Why

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/22/is-the-u-s-a-christian-nation-not-at-all-and-this-video-explains-why/




Is the U.S. a Christian Nation? Not At All, and This Video Explains Why
July 22, 2017 by Hemant Mehta

Is the United States a Christian Nation? Not in the way conservatives would like to think. We may be majority Christian, but our government is wisely secular. And that’s what the question is really getting at.

YouTuber Alex J. O’Connor (a.k.a. CosmicSkeptic) does a nice job running through the arguments conservatives use when they say the U.S. is a Christian Nation before swiftly rebutting all of them.



It’s a sad day when a foreigner knows more about our country’s secular history than our current President…

Can someone send this to pseudo-historian David Barton? And maybe all of Congress?
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Is the U.S. a Christian Nation? Not At All, and This Video Explains Why (Original Post) NeoGreen Jul 2017 OP
This is excellent. LakeArenal Jul 2017 #1
Kick rurallib Jul 2017 #2
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