Applesauce

Saying that the USA is not a Christian nation is like saying that applesauce is not fruit ...

Applesauce is just applesauce right? It's not fruit, by making it into applesauce it has lost its fruit qualities right? Would it be fair to say that applesauce was based on a fruit? What is the main ingredient of apple sauce? Is it not a fruit? Sure we've added a few other ingredients but at its core applesauce is really just mashed up apples with some added sugar and spice; so really applesauce is just mashed up fruit. At its core the US is a Christian nation based on Christian principles mashed up with a little sugar and spice added.

Yesterday president Obama gave a speech where he announced to the world that the US is not a Christian nation. We are a nation of citizens, he said. A nation of what??? When did this happen? Is he simply ignorant of the fact that this nation was founded by a bunch of Christians and that they based our constitution and legal framework on Christian principles? Or, is he announcing that under his watch we are no longer a Christian nation? Sure, the US is made up of mainly Christians and was founded by Christians but according to Obama that does not make us a Christian nation.

We are a purely secular nation; our government is completely devoid of faith of any kind. That's what separation of church and state means right? That's why our faithless founding fathers left all indications of religion and faith out of our founding documents. It was just a mistake that they occasionally threw the word "God" into documents and put "in God we trust" on our money, and "… under God" was thrown into the pledge. What they meant was that the term "God" was any type of figure that you want to worship, a golden statue, lama, or Kobe Bryant, for instance. In Kobe Bryant we trust, it could read. They couldn't have been referring to the Christian God that none of them believed in. That would have offended those who didn’t believe.

I hope the overflowing of sarcasm is apparent. It is time that we started calling apples, apples. We are a Christian nation, we were founded on Christian principles. The “God” our founding fathers referred to is the Christian God that a majority of Americans believe in. The separation of church and state simply means that the government will not endorse one religion over another. It does not mean that religion, and any reference to it, will be taken out of government. Do you think the founding fathers were careless enough to contradict themselves by creating the idea of separation of church and state and then breaking their own rule by referring continually to God in government documents?

You have the right to believe whatever you want in this country and not be discriminated against for your beliefs but that doesn't change the fact that you live in a Christian nation.