[Darkwolf377]

the community must acknowledge a common spiritual bond, or else there is no community

So Jews aren't 100% Americans either?

What are we atheists and Jews, 3/5th American?

Goodbye.

[sirchtruth]

American can not exist without a belief in a creator, because it's the creator who gives inalienable rights. Even as an Atheist you must recognize this.

It's imprinted all over our history some of the founders were deist, but most were Christian. People who try to deny this country was founded on Christian principles, are ignorant of history or just plain try to deny the fact.

My question is "what" do you as an Atheist recognize as your "creator?"

[dr_lew]

Jews were always included under the rubric of the “Judeo-Christian tradition”. It was kind of a delicate arrangement. The convention was always that ceremonial expressions of religious sentiment restricted themselves to mentions of “God” or “The Lord”. We had Bible readings in school, but only from the Old Testament, which was supposed to keep the Jews happy, but as kids we didn’t worry about them too much. The big schism was between Protestants and Catholics. All this was accepted in the 1950’s as “the way things were”.