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Culture warriors, pseudo historians and opportunistic politicians have spent the last several decades peddling the myth that America was founded as a \u201cChristian nation.\u201d\u00a0The propaganda appears to be working.\u00a0A majority of the American people (51 percent) believes that the U.S. Constitution establishes a Christian nation, according to the\u00a0State of the First Amendment survey released last month by the First Amendment Center.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Because language about a Christian America has long been a staple of Religious Right rhetoric, it\u2019s not surprising that acceptance of this patently false interpretation of the Constitution is strongest among evangelicals (71 percent) and conservatives (67 percent).\u00a0But even many non-evangelical Christians (47 percent) and liberals (33 percent) appear to believe the fiction of a constitutionally mandated Christian America is historical fact.\u00a0Forgive me for being snippy, but\u00a0read the Constitution<\/i>.\u00a0Nowhere will you find mention of God, Christ or any intention to found a Christian nation.<\/span><\/div>\n
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