The United States was never declared a Christian nation by the Founding Fathers

There are many Christian Nationalists out there who are often unaware of how Christianization was done in the past. In the Middle Ages, Europe, and England for that matter, was declared Christian when the state church was established with laws that forced people to be baptized as infants. But the Founding Fathers never declared this in the U.S., and in fact they wanted nothing to do with state churches, seeing that as an abomination, just like many other tyrannies of the past. <br><br>Christian Nationalists like to point to Washington's first inaugural speech, where he mentions God, but what they don't say is that this was typical for the time period, and even the pagan Greek and Roman leaders did the same. They also never mention Franklin's second inaugural speech, where he said that the U.S. should be a place where everybody can be free to practice their religion freely, and where no particular religion or denomination is favored over another. <br><br>Many people like to point to the Bible verses embedded in the U.S. currency and government buildings, but what they don't say is that the U.S. government was not a Christian nation when the currency and government buildings were designed, and in fact there was a lot of opposition from non Christians in Congress when the Bible verses were allowed to be on the currency and buildings, but only because of the cultural norm of mentioning God in speeches and not because they wanted a Christian state. <br><br>If you want proof that the Founding Fathers did not want to create a Christian state, just look at Thomas Jefferson's views. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the state governor of Virginia twice. He was a Christian but he did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, and was against the use of torture, and even freed many of his Christian slaves after their baptisms, on the principle that once they were Christian they could not be slaves. He even wanted to create a wall of separation of Church and state in Virginia, which would be the basis for the U.S. Supreme Court's establishment clause that separates Church and state, and would make it unconstitutional to establish any state religion, which was the intent of the Founding Fathers.