HCR on the idea of a “Christian nation”

From the latest installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American:

The government of the United States of America is not, and never has been, based in Christianity. In his 1785 “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments,” framer of the Constitution James Madison explained that what was at stake in the separation of church and state was not just religion, but also representative government itself. The establishment of one religion over others attacked a fundamental, unalienable human right — that of conscience. If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants.

The United States of America is based not on religion but on the law. The country’s founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, which established the principle that all people are created equal, and the U.S. Constitution, which has gradually expanded since it was first written, increasingly recognizing the equal rights of all Americans.

I’d like to see these paragraphs in skywriting over Mary Miller’s Illinois family farm. Also over Delaware, where the farm is incorporated.

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A handful of posts about Mary Miller (R, IL-15) and Christian nationalism