When he was in Turkey, President Obama made this statement:
“Although … we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation, or a Muslim nation,” said Obama. “We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
OK, only individual human beings–not institutions as such–can be Christians. But does his statement go too far? Here “Christian” is an adjective, not a noun. And who is “we”? SOME Americans do consider this to be a Christian nation. Do they not count?
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