Is USA a Christian Nation?

I’ve heard it said that the United States is no longer a Christian nation.  I’ve seen movements to try to cement that belief.  I wonder if it’s true though… no, I don’t… I know the US is a Christian nation at its core and I pray it remains one.

If I’m born as, let’s say for instance, a Spaniard and later I move to France and live like the French and learn the language and can pass myself off as a French person, does that make me any less a Spaniard?  Just because our nation has chosen to act like the devil does not change who we are.If we ever forsake completely the principles that formed this nation then we will become the puppets of whomever is the biggest threat or best talker.  Today I read that in the UK they are covering terrorism-watch cameras in Muslim neighborhoods because the Muslims feel they are being profiled.  Someone replied that if the government gives in on putting up the cameras then the next thing they should put up is a white flag.  Whether you like the idea of cameras watching public streets or not, if they do it for one they should not back down from another just because they claim prejudice.

Our nation was founded on Christian principles and on the desire to live as we wish without persecution from others of different beliefs.  How is the tyranny of England saying in which church we will worship any different than a religious group saying in which direction we can point cameras?  How is the suppression of speech that led to the Revolutionary War any different than the “political correctness” that prevents us from even praying out loud for fear “someone” will be offended?

If you want to see where we came from just look to our National Anthem.  No one has said anything about it — yet — and still it is an amazing piece.  I’m copying it below but look especially carefully at the 4th verse and tell me that we are not a Christian nation.

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!