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
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