Christian nationalists want to make American a Christian Theocracy and remove separation of church and state They'll usually either claim that America is explicitly a Christian nation, per the founders, who they claim were Christian. Or that the core principles and beliefs are Judeo-Christian Neither of these claims are true The broader and more prevalent claim that America is founded on Judeo-Christian values . . . (she stopped) Although the majority of Americans are Christian, but none of the American values are explicitly Christian, nor are we a nation founded for Christians John Adams explicitly states that the Government of the US is not in anyway founded on the Christian religion The Declaration of Indep. and Revolutionary War was against the king, who was the head of the Christian church at the time--ordained by God--meaning going against him was to go against God. Many of the people who sided with Britain told the Fathers this explicitly. The American Experiment stems from the Enlightment idea that man can rule himself through reason alone, without God. We can do it ourselves. - The actual influences are (mostly) John Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Thomas Paine - The social contract is also Locke (Jefferson named him as greatest influence) The values derived from those philosophers go against the principles found in the Bible The story that George Washington prayed in Valley Forge is completely fabricated, and was created by a dude that wanted to sell a Chrstian book to children Most of the Founding Fathers were deist--not particularly religious - God is no longer in first principles, he is no longer an explanation for Earthly phenomenon The Founding Fathers were much closer to modern Atheists or Agnostics than Christians America is not a Christian nation, it is a nation where you are free to be Christian America is explicitly founded on Christian Plurality They've been bringing up that the separation of Church and State isn't explicitly in the consitution, but it is entailed in the Constitution quite obviously