“But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the First Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution.” FirstsWellsStatesHomeChristianNationsReligiousPrayerUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAtheismParticularConstitutionPositive AtheismAdministrationOfficialsOwnersHostGuestsAmendmentsExclusiveFirst AmendmentDefianceProtestantsDescendantsChristian NationMayflower Author:Alan Dershowitz
“The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness is based on the fact that there is no official religion.” StatesFactsChristianNationsUnitedUnited StatesAtheismGreatnessPositive AtheismOfficialsGreat NationsChristian Nation Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
“As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.” TwoCountryStatesCharacterGovernmentChristianLawNationsReligiousUnitedOpinionUnited StatesProductsHarmonyAtheistTranquilityEnmityInterruptionsPretextTwo CountriesChristian Nation Author:John Adams
“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.” StatesChristianReligionNationsUnitedUnited StatesChristian Nation Author:John Adams