The US has an identity crisis rooted in way too much religion

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29. Some of the original colonies were established as religious. 3 Catholic, 5 Protestant, 5 Interdenominational.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

Soon after the Revolution was won, the colonies disestablished religion as part of their governance. So no, the country wasn't founded as a Christian nation. It was just full of Christians. Big difference.

Since so-called speaker Mike Johnson is an evangelical and Southern Baptist, he would ignore this northern Baptist minister. This is how sectarian believer wars begin -- with christians proudly but secretly deceiving themselves about knowing what God wants.

1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, wrote against a state-sanctioned religion, saying: "Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?" He also observed that when "church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued."