Here's a quote from Walker:
The Constitution is a decidedly secular document. Yes, many of the Founders were men of faith and mostly Christian, but they opted to ensure religious liberty for all, not ensconce their own religious views in the nation’s founding document. When it comes to religion, our Constitution is not a religious document but a religious freedom document. The U.S. may be a Christian nation sociologically, but not constitutionally. That fact is easy to demonstrate. Living up to the religious freedom values embodied in the Constitution and not giving preference to the Christian majority is more difficult.
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Brent Walker's comments in the full statement are solid, as far as they go. I think they left out some key points.
The belief that the USA is a "Christian Nation" is not a happenstance. It is a carefully calculated deception of the citizens--the creation of a Myth--for partisan political purposes. It is also tied in, on the part of some of its proponents, with a seriously defective theology, that is lightly related to some Hebrew Scriptures. [See Greg Boyd's "The Myth of a Christian Nation."]
All of Walker's examples of cases where the religious views of a candidate are relevant are well taken. But I believe he left out a major one.
The sort of approach to religious belief of the candidate, in some cases, provides a key indicator of just how gullible the candidate is.
Our current president is a case in point. He credits the most outrageously preposterous theological positions, and consequently dismisses well based scientific research findings, and informed social and economic analyses, when it comes to setting policy for the government. Those consequences of his gullibility are having disastrous consequences for the country and the world.
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