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Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American Was America founded as a Christian nation?

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Many, especially Christians, would argue that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation. "In God We Trust" decorates our coinage and George Washington prayed, however do occurances such as these constitute a Christian Nation? No, as the Founding Fathers never intended the United States to be a Theocracy or to have the church rule as the government. The pilgrims from England escaped religious persecution from a Protestant-Christian government under the Anglican church. From America's beginnings at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Company and its settlers carried Christian sentiment...

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