Unless you live in the Socialist States of America and you're given a government privilege to carry a handgun (a license), pay your annual government fee to own your own land (property tax), have "safety laws" that destroy the protection of basic inalienable rights, or have a government that allows freedom of "choice" to come into affect only after a women has had sex to when she has become pregnant and kills the fetus. Samuel Adams was right, but we don't have guarded these "natural rights" anymore... We're truly on one destructive slippery slope.

Unless by due-process you can rob it from everyone else...

What greater crutch is there than government? Hail! the new defacto God!

Wasn't it Hitler who attacked his own country and blamed it on his "terrorist enemies"? Anonymous, I think you have your facts a little backwards... On behalf of all Americans, I apologize for our President(s).

Work hard! There are millions on welfare depending on you!

"freedom FROM the state" not "freedom BY the state". Good quote.

The perfect example of why this is deemed "a Christian Nation". It has nothing to do with on religion over another in oppression but everything to do with "primitive and genuine doctrines" that govern the human mind. It is the doctrine of peace that is the perfect pre-emptive strike against crime, hate, and persecution of man against each other.

It is sad that man have lost their connection with the heart of God. As such, they have lost their connection with the heart of America!

Perfect example of the basis of true Christian thought...

Can it be said in more simplicity?

No, Christianity does not have a right to "denigrate all other religions". Every founding father, including Thomas Jefferson who is commonly known as a "deist", said that the Christian theocracy of peace and love to fellowman is the greatest of any religion. In true Christianity is found the greatest amount of acceptance and tolerance than any other religion. Thieves of the Christian faith have gone on holy crusades to force their fellowman into forced virtue, however, while doing so, have violated the very framework of the gospel they say they are proclaiming. Such is a sad truth. However, thus said, America was established as a "Christian Nation" -- and why is this so bad? If I were to go to another country and see their government based upon their dominant religion I wouldn't be concerned or felt that my own religion was being intruded upon. Atheism claims to be a religion that doesn't believe in a surpreme being, and if so, they really should't care what anyone else believes... however this is not the case... Atheism is not passive in it's belief in no diety but active in its attack on what others believe. If America was based upon principles of Christianity, so what? So long as another man is safe in his ability to worship his own God according to the dictates of his own conscience, where's the problem?

It will take this long. Your slander on Christianity or on a “Christian Nation” is ignorant. Do you forget the (at least) 9 Supreme Court rulings declaring the United States a Christian Nation? Do you actually read the words of the Founding Fathers? Yes, there are many religions with belief in a God, but it was the Christian faith with a belief in a Christian God that founded the Nation in which freedoms you now enjoy. If you want to live in Israel, you can be assured you’re living in a country founded on Jewish belief. In Jordan, Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia you can be assured you’re living in a country founded on by the Muslim faith. If you go to China, then you can be assured you’re going to run into a culture based off the Buddhist faith. As said, not only do we have the words of the Founding Fathers (Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution) declaring the Bible should be taught in schools and that Christian religion and morality should be the base of our culture (because it was the Bible that James Madison said he even based the Constitution on) but it has been declared by the Supreme Court on multiple occasions. There are highjackers of every kind of Religion, and sadly, also of Christianity, who will wage a holy war for their cause – however, this goes against the very core and fundamental beliefs of Christianity. Don’t blame what you believe is intolerance and fuel for hatred based on a few loud mouthed highjackers of a Religion. In pure Christianity, there is pure acceptance for all Religions and Beliefs.

We are at war in Iraq because there are men who have, as we have been told, "taken over the muslim religion". How do you then not apply the same to those who highjack the Bible and Christianity? All we hear about in America are those muslims who are blowing everyone up because they are the ones out actually doing something! You don't hear about the passive muslims who sit at home all day hoping for peace. The same is true of the same type of Christians in America and through history! The Bible IS founded on the gospel of peace! The sad part is that it's still up to God's children to make good on that peace in the world, that, as we are taught in the gospel of peace, they do not.

You can't use modern day semantics and rhetoric to define a word used today in how it was used more than 200 years ago. Definitions are changed all the time! You can't understand what John Adams was saying by looking up a Webster's Revised Dictionary! You have to go to the place he was at, what he was doing, problems they were facing - truly, in order to understand what he was saying you would have to know the difference between a Republic and a Democracy -- of which, the majority of American's do not. Adams was talking concerning our Republic and the freedoms granted...

The Quote and source are as follows: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political perosperity, religion and morality are indespensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest prop of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, outght to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for propety, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert teh oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge in the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle... Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?" George Washington, Farewell Address, To his cabinet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; September 17, 1796. Washington makes clear that "religion and morality" are "indespensable supports" of government... A person who is actually educated enough on the words of the Founding Fathers (especially of Washington) would know that Washington was talking to the "governing", not those who are "governed".

A despotic statement showing complete contempt for American judicial jurisprudence and constitutional principle or complete ignorance of Supreme Court precedence. The First Amendment does no such thing. The only reason a Supreme Court Justice can make such a statement is because of the ignorance of the people.