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"Is America a Christian Nation?"

Inasmuch as its majority religion is Christianity, yes.
Legally and Constitutionally, no.

"The goal of the U.S. Constitution is to recognize God-given rights, not to advance the goals of Christianity."

Good summation.
-Long Cut-

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I always shudder a bit when I see people seriously claim that our rights are "God given".

I foresee that an insistence upon a 'Creator' that gave us our rights presupposes a scenario where 'He' could take them away.
[Assisted by his earthly disciples, of course.]

There are far too many sects & cults that firmly believe that they can enforce 'God given rights', -- as they see fit to interpret them.

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I always shudder a bit when I see people seriously claim that our rights are "God given".

I understand your concern, but am actually more worried about our rights being "Man given" or "Government given", then they really can be taken away. The aforementioned one can only be changed by one person, not 6 billion. I guess that is where they got "inalienable".

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I foresee that an insistence upon a 'Creator' that gave us our rights presupposes a scenario where 'He' could take them away.

The Founding Fathers use of 'Creator' is more or less a set of 'code words' which means 'not subject to the whims of government'.

Your religion, or in your case non-religion is of no concern to me. As long as you have no problem with my free exercise, I have no problem with yours.

Compulsion either way is offensive to me.