Not meaning to politicize this thread but
@MarkD said it well. Many people don’t know what want and what they think they want is not the way they picture things. What if we had a Christian nation? May I remind you of the Christian Crusades or the Normalization of Native Americans, African Americans, Asian populations. All of these cultures had one thing in common, they were not white Christian people, so White American Christians set out to persecute and change their native heritage to be acceptable in god’s eyes and in theirs.
Funny thing about missionaries, assuming they are called to serve in the mission field. Have missionaries ever considered they are not wanted in the field because they attempt Normalize cultures into something else but not as it is pictured according their views.
The false concept god will fix everything is short-sighted and narrow-minded. But suppose we lived in Christian nation, by doing so look
“The new survey finds that nearly 8 in 10 people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation also say the Bible should have at least some influence on U.S. laws, including slightly more than half (54%) who say that when the Bible conflicts with the will of the people, the Bible should prevail,” researchers wrote.
More than 6 in 10 Christians (62%), including 81% of white evangelical Protestants, 65% of Black Protestants and 47% of Catholics, think the U.S. should be a Christian nation, compared to just 16% of non-Christians,
Republicans also are at least twice as likely as Democrats to say that America should be a Christian nation (67% vs. 29%) and that the Bible should have more influence over U.S. laws than the will of the people if they conflict (40% vs. 16%),” researchers wrote. “Sixty-three percent of Americans ages 65 and older say the United States should be a Christian nation, compared with 23% of those ages 18 to 29.”
There’s less of a gap between Christians and non-Christians and Republicans and Democrats on a separate question about whether America’s founders “originally intended” for the country to be a Christian nation. Sixty percent of U.S. adults believe that they did
After asking a series of yes-or-no questions about the country’s character, researchers had survey participants respond to an open-ended question about what the phrase “Christian nation” means to them.
Responses made it clear that Americans are not at all on the same page, according to Pew.
“Some people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation are thinking about the religious makeup of the population; to them, a Christian nation is a country where most people are Christians. Others are simply envisioning a place where people treat each other well and have good morals,” researchers noted in the survey reported.
The most common response was something along the lines of a Christian nation being one that’s generally guided by “Christian beliefs and values.”
Only 18% of U.S. adults said a Christian nation has Christian-based laws and governance, and it was much more common for opponents of the Christian nation concept to share this definition than others, researchers said.
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) said these faith groups should not endorse political candidates. Two-thirds said churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters.
Most Americans (64%) also agree that the U.S. is not currently a Christian nation.
“A large majority of the public expresses some reservations about intermingling religion and government,” researchers wrote.
Pew’s survey comes amid widespread debate about religious freedom, including the Supreme Court’s approach to this right. More liberal Americans increasingly fear that Christians have an unfair advantage over others in the political realm, while conservatives often argue that people of faith are under attack.
The new report captures these tensions and shows that few Americans are happy with the status quo.
Pew found that majorities of all major faith groups — and 72% of U.S. adults overall — think “their side” has been losing more often than winning in the political realm over the past few years.
A Christian nation would become Totaltarian society where religion, specifically Christianity would be upheld as the main source for laws and punishment. If the nation adopts the Ten Commandments over the Consitution and Bill of Rights, imagine the consequences for sin? Punishment methods would revert back to Biblical proportents where public stoning, hanging and crosses would become the norm again.
People only want in a government what is pleasing to them. To suggest having a Christian nation is a false idea that romantically seems good and wholesome because you fail to recognize the whole picture and ramafications of a Christian nation. Wake up world.
