I read your article and need to share and clarify a few important points. You say we are not a Christian nation, but in fact we are, but have slowly been moving away from Christianity. America was built upon Judeo-Christian principles, which is the Word of God, which is the Holy Bible. Organized religion, like the Catholic Church, doesn’t teach from the Bible and is entirely different from a Bible based church, which teaches strictly from the Bible. Teaching from the Bible is God’s Word and that was what George Washington used when he consecrated America to God.
Most think July 4, 1776 is when America was founded, but it was only the day we declared our independence. America was formally founded 13-years later on April 30, 1789 at our first capital, New York City. In 1789, Washington, D.C didn’t exist. This is where George Washington placed his hand on a Bible and swears the Oath. He delivers the first presidential address in front of the first Congress in Federal Hall. Afterwards, he leads the nation’s first government on foot, in a procession, to a little stone sanctuary to commit the nation’s future in prayer to God. The little stone sanctuary is St. Paul’s Chapel. This is the location of where our nation’s first president, Senate, and House of Representatives bowed together in prayer to consecrate America’s future into the hands of God’s holy protections. What is surprising is this all happened in New York City at Ground Zero. The little Chapel still stands amid the destruction of the Twin-Tower buildings. That destruction didn’t even break a pane of glass in the Chapel. That’s a sign of God’s hand on America. There is only one God, but unfortunately, He has been pushed out of America and His protections are fast fading.
America actually placed a bronze statue of George Washington on Wall Street facing the New York Stock Exchange with the inscription; “On this site in Federal Hall, April 30, 1789 George Washington took the Oath as the First President of the United States of America.”
As to your point on the First Amendment; the First Amendment doesn’t say specifically there is or should be a separation of church and state, it simply states that Congress will make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The separation part did in fact come from Thomas Jefferson when he suggested and stated, there should be a wall of separation between church and state.
I hope these two points help somewhat. As you know, I was brought up Catholic, with the rest of my family, but have departed from the Catholic Church after finding what God’s Word really means and revivals for each of us.
