I agree 100% that this is not a Christian nation… for which I’m very thankful to our founders.

But Gene Horrigan needs to read up on some history… “The first settlers of the new world were seeking, among other things, escape from religious persecution, not to form a faith-based colony.” This is only half true: they were fleeing religious persecution, yes – but almost all colonies established in the New World were set up with religious bias already built in. Most of them started persecuting other religions almost as soon as they got here.

The Puritans started a near-theocracy in Massachusetts Bay, Jamestown was as Anglican as they come, the oldest city in the New World, St Augustine, was named for a Roman Catholic Saint, Pennsylvania was for Quakers, Maryland for Catholics, etc…

Again, we’re not a Christian nation, but that’s because our Founders had the good sense to secularise public life and redirect certain sectarian impulses for the greater unity of the new country. This is how the nation that Jeremy Hall lampoons was avoided (at least on paper… we need to avoid it daily in real life, of course).