Look up the facts about 'Christian nation'

For the umpteenth time, a Nov. 6 letter to the editor in the Herald proclaimed that "the U.S. was founded as a Christian country."

This writer and many others who have sent letters to the editor cite as proof the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. May I suggest these writers actually read the documents rather than expressing their own religious views?

There is not a single mention of Christianity in any of these documents.

While our Founding Fathers were Christian, a number of them were Masons, and all believed in a total separation of church and state.

This view of the U.S. as a Christian nation seems to be a core belief of the Christian right. Belief cannot substitute for facts.

Robert Frankel

Schaumburg