A Christian Nation?

Is the United States of America a Christian nation? It depends on who you ask. If you ask the current President, he has said, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation." He even told the Egyptians earlier this year, "You might say that America is a Muslim nation."

On May 6 of this year, the President would not participate in the National Day of Prayer, saying that prayer was a "private" thing and he did not want to "offend" anyone.

Yet just last month he made this statement before the start of Islam's holy month: "Tonight's iftar is a ritual that is also being carried out this Ramadan at kitchen tables and mosques in all 50 states. Islam, as we know, is part of America. And like the broader American citizenry, the American Muslim community is one of extraordinary dynamism and diversity -- with families that stretch back generations and more recent immigrants; with Muslims of countless races and ethnicities, and with roots in every corner of the world.

"Indeed, the contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country."

He speaks very eloquently about Islam in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D376WnU4nv4

Was our nation founded upon the god of Islam (who encourages violence against infidels, oppression of women, and jihad) or upon the one true and living God of the Bible? (Contrary to what some have said, they are NOT one and the same Person!)

President Thomas Jefferson: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

President Andrew Jackson called the Bible; "the Rock upon which our republic rests.”

President John Adams said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.”

Patrick Henry said, “It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.”

George Washington, in his Farewell Address said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

Alexis de Tocqueville, in Democracy in America, wrote extensively on the relationship between the Christian religion and liberty in American: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."