Is the US a Christian Nation?
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@LeejaMiller
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
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@shariharris7838
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
What if God Christ is Satan and that why evil is alive on earth? Only men in the Bible tell us God is good, but God break one of his own commandments "they shall not kill" and God flood the world to kill off people, children, baby. and the unborn.
@JessieNow
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
I would be curious to learn more about the framers of the constitution, the fights they fought and see how they play in parallel to what we see today. As an out, proud, fierce trans woman, I cannot help but think there has got to be some similarities in the fight for independence from the crown and the current fight to prevent a crown from being established. I love that I started following many months ago during metro surge.
@ludovicgraham6234
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
2:04 Is there an overton window for religion? Like, if the Evangelical Protestants outnumber the Mainline Protestants by more than 2 to 1, aren't they kind of the mainline now? Also, are people "mainline"ing that protestantism? I think Marx predicted this development…
@ValerieMirra-q2s
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
I wasn’t aware that Christians were having a problem freely practicing their religion. I mean they are EVERYWHERE and I usually can’t go a day without one shoving their beliefs down my throat so I ask in all sincerity…..WTF???
@franciscoandrade5537
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
– 55 out of 56 of all founding fathers self-identified as Christian, whereas only 2 self-identified as deist
@joaquinclemens6698
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
The founding fathers also wore makeup, wigs, tights, skirts, and heels. I’d like them to put people with that fashion back into office
@RichardLepley
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
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@ErroneousTheory
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Oh! Ireland seems to agree with you
@FIERCETiBi
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Thank you for the great work you do Leeja
@stonegapper
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
It's best to follow at least a generic Christian narrative in the United States. Be free!!!
@tomnanD3
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
It's so obvious that religion had nothing to do with the country's founding, that Christians must lie to support their position.
@jenniferakyiem980
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
A black man Benjamin benneck did design Washington DC. There is a statue of a Catholic queen Isabella and Albert Pike a freemason.
@self-absorbed5269
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Separation of church , and state is church founded "Let what is God's go unto God , and what is Caesar's go unto Caesar."
If they read the Bible , they would know.
@codesslinger
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Wait what do you mean you can’t just “create” a religion? Does that not disqualify allll religions? So whee does Mormon or Scientology fall in that??? One thing to mention from history why no established religion was made in the constitution was Protestant vs quakers at the time where the Protestant towns were writing laws against Quakers that had death sentences.
@tkcentral7760
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
If you leave a society neutral, religions will pop up and one will win out. Humans are religious and they organize themselves in hierarchies to ensure quality. Christianity is the most beneficial religion for all because it focuses on charity.
@tkcentral7760
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
The lower, middle class and a few in the higher class usually are religious. But the super rich who steal tax money by becoming right wing polticians are probably not.
@denisebryank8152
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
I thought the WHOLE point of this country,…… it's nobody's damn business,(my church,..my bedroom, ..my domisial)
@aspiringdaddysboi
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Churches are already tax-exempt, and then they want to be publicly funded through federal funds too, aka your tax dollars, as it further infiltrates and indoctrinates government and daily legislation more and more.
The preaching and dogma is already insufferable, but enacting actual policy and brainwashing in public schools to get them while they're young is truly fascistic. The cascading effects on marginalized communities are extremely harmful and detrimental to society as a whole, it will backfire.
@Globovoyeur
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Very well explained. Another good reference is the late Ed Asner's book "The Grouchy Historian" (Simon & Schuster, October 2017). Asner notes that the Founding Fathers exchanged letters with clergymen of the day — clergymen such as the Reverend Dr. John Mason of New York, who called Thomas Jefferson a "confirmed infidel." There was no agreement among clergymen that the Founding Fathers were Christians.
@lucasrivero8432
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Not a fan of organized religion!!!
@eflizzle
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
As a devout catholic I am s staunch supporter of the separation of church and state. The worst thing for our country is forcing someone else’s beliefs onto others.
@leptonsoup337
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Thank you for clarifying how AI was used in the video description.
@wankertanker1813
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
They espouse religion to suggest to religious people that nobody should question their policies.
There's some saying that war is politics by other means. (Another, vice versa).
All wars are economic. Everything else is window dressing. Get people to go along with it.
Ultimately, with the billionaire corporate Epstine class….(it wasn't as blatant with previous administrations, but it was there, none the less), they want to use religion to shield their theft and control over mass amounts of wealth that they could never use, even in multiple life times.
It's attempts at a new red scare.
Note the quote earlier in the video by trump in that social democrats are commonists. And commonists are all godless.
Right there is key.
Restricting freedoms of LGBT people isn't really their point. Like, at all. Though, certainly the point for LGBT people.
To the billionaire corporate Epstine class, the point is demonizing anyone who opposes their great rip off that leaves the vast majority of us with less and less. And to demonize Any attempt to alleviate this situation.
If they can't get away with calling the great disparity of wealth "natural", they'll try to claim it is blessed by God.
@sama3033
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
America was fucked the minute the puritans arrived. I thank the gods that we kicked them out of the UK when we did.
@MrOksim
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Thanks a lot for this video!
@krysdavis1061
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
No! I absolutely refuse. It feels like this White Christian Nationalist movement is trying to swallow the entire country.
Growing up, I was sucked into Jehovah’s Witness teachings. The messaging in their pamphlets and children's books pushed me into a spiral of suicidal ideation. I had to constantly mask just to navigate social situations, resulting in pure exhaustion. I grew up hating myself, my sexuality, and my inability to fit into rigid gender boxes.
Seeing these same patterns rise up again on a national level is suffocating.
@Scullzem
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
Currently working on an annotated bibliography for my religion class that heavily covers this.
@HarmoniusLife
July 7, 2026 at 3:52 am
This is insane. America was founded to avoid all of this… This is so dystopian and terrifying to me as a Belgian.