I am a christian - and it affects ALL of my political views.

[MadHound]

57. Sorry, but I disagree with your contention that the US is a Christian nation,

Whether you spell Christian with a large or small C.

The US was founded by people much like us, warts and all. Yes, they were moral men, but moral doesn't equate to Christian, nor Christian equate with moral.

In fact it surprises a lot of people when they find out that several of our founding fathers weren't even Christian, but were Deists instead.

I think you have made the common mistake of conflating the two terms of "moral" and "Christian". One doesn't have to be Christian in order to be moral, but sadly it seems as though that is the prevailing attitude. Perhaps we should work on correcting that.

As far as whether or not this is a moral country, ideally, yes. In practical operation, no. The pages of our history are too soaked with the blood of innocents for us to ever pretend that we are a moral nation. Even now, Obama and the rest of our democratically elected leaders are responsible for countless deaths of innocents in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Nor is this lack of morality confined to foreign affairs. One has but to look at the children dying of starvation and poverty in this land of plenty to realize that we cannot be a moral nation.

Ideally, we should be a moral nation. But the ruling elite have taken those ideals and twisted them to suit their own purposes. The only way to again achieve anything close to that ideal is for the people, the ultimate power in any democracy, to seize back the power from the ruling elite. Until we do that, morality is going to be in short supply.