The founders of America were very mindful, and well read, as to the destructiveness of commingling the church and state as that was the history of Europe and they sought to create a government that created an environment which relived people of that type of oppression. The current movement to portray America as being founded as a Christian Nation is an attempt by Christian Nationalist to undermine and obscure those truths and is divisive and quite Un-American.

While I will agree that a long an meaningful debate is needed in the forum of public opinion as to the actual founding of the government and it's relation to the Christian religion, there is no need for a law to accomplish that goal. Just people who are willing to stand up and speak the truth.

Seems like people should think about the phrase separation of church and state.

Founding Father's wanted to keep the "state" out of the church, to not establish a single religion as was customary in England at the whim of the current King/Queen, first Catholic then Protestant and then back again. Often imposing death if you didn't follow the belief of the state.

The purpose was not to keep religion out of government, but to keep government out of religion.

Recall that the predominant reason for immigration was to flee religious persecution - the state being involved in religion, not religion being involved in the state.

Fine line, but its there.

I pose that keeping the state out of church is what should be focused on. It is not keeping "the church" out of "the state" (government).

Our nation at its beginnings had Muslims, Jews and Christians. BUT when you read all the references to the Bible, how often prayer was performed - in the name of Jesus, etc., we ARE a Judeo-Christian nation.

HR 888 is NOT establishing a "state" religion, it is clarifying that we were founded upon Christianity.