...but we finally have a response to Barack Obama's painfully correct statement that America is not a Christian nation.
"Regardless of how we've allowed ourselves to get off track, the evidence is overwhelming that America was founded by Christians on Christian principles."
Actually that is not true...not at all. The "Creator" that is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence (evangelicals favorite document to hijack for their cult-like purposes) is a creator in the deist sense of the word. A passive God that created and then allowed man the freedom to live his own life, not the all knowing, all seeing vengeful God of Bob Ellis and his ilk.
If you follow the link Ellis provides in the above quote it will take you to a long winded narrative that basically states the Christianity and by extension Christians have a monopoly on values. Apparently only Christianity extols the virtues of hard work, honesty, treating others well, not stealing, not killing, not cheating. Ellis tries to make the point that these are all Christian values and because they have all gone into the making of our laws we must be a Christian nation. This arrogance is one good reason that many people tire quickly of self-righteous ego-maniacal evangelicals like Bob Ellis.
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