[CaptainHaplo]

Bubblehead - it is a common misconception that the country was founded by "Christians". By definition, the majority of the founding fathers were deists.

While deism and Christianity share many of the same tenents, they do differ. Deists believe in a "higher power" - aka God, which is why there are so many references to the Supreme Being in our historical documents. However, deists may or may not place faith in specific tenents of the Christian faith - for example a deist may reject the notion of the Trinity, or they may deny that modern scripture is without error.

Because deism and Xtianity are so very closely tied, from a historical perspective people look at it as in "Well they believed in God and Jesus and I do to, and I am a Xtian, so they must have been - thus this nation was founded as a xtian nation" - yet the reality is much more complex and such a statement is inaccurate.