[DevilsWin]

I never said that Jefferson's ideas or intellect were superior to any of the other founding fathers.

The argument has been stated many times that America is a Christian Nation and was founded to be as such.

I on the other hand have debated that America is rather a Constitutional Democracy.
Others have said that America is a Constitutional Republic. That debate is on going and one of the products of that debate was the Civil War. Others would include the Women's Suffragist Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and currently the Gay Rights Movement.

The subject at hand here was merely wether or not America is a Christian Nation or a nation of Christians.

I don't necessarily agree with everything Jefferson said but to understand America you have to understand Jefferson. If you think he was a Christian I think you need to re-examine the definition of the word.

New data has suggested that the number of people who claim no religious affiliation has increased from 14% to 25% from 1990 to 2009.

Other findings include:


• The percentage of Catholics in the United States has remained steady at about one in four since 1990, while the percentage of other Christians has plummeted from 60 percent to 50 percent.


• The percentage of Muslims has doubled since 1990, but remains statistically very small, only 0.3 percent in the original survey and 0.6 percent today.


• Mormons have remained steady as a percentage of the population, even as the number of people in the United States has grown. They make up 1.4 percent of the population.


• The number of Jews in the United States is falling if the category includes only those who define themselves as Jews religiously, but has remained the same if the category includes people who consider themselves ethnicall Jewish.


The survey polled 54,461 Americans between February and November of 2008. Pollsters conducted the research in both English and Spanish.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife...christian/


This, I think is what scares fundamental Christians.