Courage???
More like stupidity.
It's obvious and has been for quite awhile that the US hasn't been a Christian nation.
Some might argue, we were never a TRULY Christian nation, but a nation built on laws with Christian foundations and a sizeable Christian population.
I doubt if at any time after 1776 that we ever had a population that was ever 50% or more true Christians.
I thought we are are against Sharia law.
Correct. Wasn't it John Adams that said our system of government was setup for a wholly moral people and totally inadequate for any other?
Whole libraries exist documenting the Christian influence, the church influence, the pastoral influence on the foundlings of our nation. Many books have been published over the past 200 years documenting the correspondences between our founding fathers and pastors throughout the original colonies. The influence of the Virginia Baptists on Madison and the reasoning behind the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment in particular is all well documented.