re: #439 Salamantis

American norms are not just Judeo-Christian. The US Constitution was also influenced by Greco-Roman values (and they were pagans) and does not attempt to be another book in the Torah or Bible. We are not a theocracy; we are a democracy.

We are a SECULAR nation, with religious freedom for all and religious coercion for none.

I would wholeheartedly disagree. We are not a Democracy but a Representative Republic. Further, we are not a Secular nation, but a country with no established religion. These are two very different things.

Frequently, I see people mistaking the meaning of Secular and interchangeably mixing it with the word non or a-religious. Again, these aren’t synonymous. To be “secular” means that one is concerned only with worldly things and has no belief in the religious, spiritual, or sacred. I would rightly argue that we, Americans are grounded in many things spiritual and have many ideals which are sacred.

We are not a “secular” nation as you put it, but one with no established religion.