Summit Ministries

Arguments over whether the United States is a religious nation often focus on its history. Many people believe that America has rejected the religious (specifically Christian) ideals that were present at the nation’s founding. Such a contention appears in the following viewpoint by Summit Ministries, a Christian ministry and educational organization. The group asserts that America’s founders—the people who fought the American Revolution and wrote the U.S. Constitution—acted on the assumption that America was and would continue to be a predominantly Christian country. However, modern judicial interpretations of the Constitution have established a wall of separation of church and state and effectively banished religion from public affairs in America. This, according to the ministry, created a spiritual void that enabled the values of “Secular Humanism&rdquo...