Let us consider the "set of principles" which, like a great moral magnet, has gathered these millions of citizens from every other country of the world. The "self-evident" core belief of Americans is that we are all created equal. Equal... how? Equal in the eyes of our heavenly Creator and, here in America, equal before the law that was instituted to preserve our God-given liberty. Only the Christian religion insists on liberty. Without liberty we are not free to love. Only the Christian religion insists on loving God and our neighbors and even our enemies! In fact it's a commandment from God.

It would seem that in addition to appealing to secular Europe, our new president is trying playing to his secular base at home when he says we aren't a Christian nation. He wants to reassure them that the first amendment is designed to protect the state from the influence of the church. The Founders, of course, believed that there should be no established state religion, but that the success of democratic government depended on citizens who were themselves governed by religious morality. The history of the twentieth century is dominated by the bloody failure of godless systems of government in Europe, Russia and Asia.

Patrick Henry boldly declared: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

This nation is founded on Christian principles. In this nation, equality is expressed as Christian tolerance. That's the reason that every religion of the world feels at home in America, because in a very real way, this IS a Christian nation.