Was America Ever a Christian Nation?

A Response to Current Events From Americans United

What an officially 'Christian Nation' looked like in America

    Three hundred and seventy-nine years ago today, the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a lawmaking it a crime to deny that the Bible had divine origins. The penalty was stiff: Anyone found in violation would be executed . . . . In recent years, the most extreme voices of Christian Nationalism have called for stripping LGBTQ+ people of their rights, banning books, infusing public schools with fundamentalist Christianity and rolling back women’s rights, among other things – all because they believe freedom and equality run afoul of biblical strictures . . . . This theocratic agenda springs not from the time of the Founding Fathers. It would have been alien to them. Its origins rest with zealous Puritans; it comes from a time of witch trials, imprisonment for blasphemy and forced attendance at religious services . . . . Make no mistake, when Christian Nationalists talk about how our country ought to be a 'Christian nation,' this is what they’re yearning for – a government that acts as enforcer of their theology, a literal merger of church and state." For the full article and more articles from Americans United for Separation of Church and State see: What an officially 'Christian Nation' looked like in America.