From a netfriend:

There are a fairly sizable portion of people born in the USA who might ask, exactly when was it that the USA was "one nation under God", when was the USA ever a Christian nation?"

An honestlook at the USA 's history should make anyone familar with the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus ask, 'Exactly when was this Golden Age?'

Was that back in the day when we "removed" the people already living here, either thru wiping them out with bullets, or removing them to portions of the country that were less desirable (until gold or other valuable resources were found, then we "moved" them again)?

Was that back in the day when a large part of the population was considered "property", and could be killed, mutilated, and bred like cattle?

Perhaps America was "Christian" when Pinkerton guards were shooting down strikers?

Or perhaps America was "Christian" when it enacted the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans (the majority CITIZENS) simply because of their ancestry?

Was it when "we" decided that Chinese people/ people of Chinese ancestry were NOT to be permitted to become US citizens no matter how long they lived here, no matter the fact that they have been born in the USA?

Or was it when people were denied the right to vote based on their sex or their skin color?

Perhaps during the period of McCarthyism, which blacklisted and destroyed the careers, reputations, lives of so many because of their (real or imagined) political beliefs?

Maybe America was "Christian" while it engaged in National Security that resulted in the radiation, biological, and chemical experiments that killed, sickened, or disabled so many unwitting servicemen and civilians?

Maybe America was Christian when it practiced legal segregation in the South, and defacto segregation in the North, when it treated "her" non-White citizens as second class citizens?

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Wilson: Early Presidents Not Religious

"The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson] not a one had professed a belief in Christianity....

"Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism." -- The Reverend Doctor Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, in a sermon preached in October, 1831, first sentence quoted in John E. Remsberg, "Six Historic Americans," second sentence quoted in Paul F. Boller, George Washington & Religion, pp. 14-15