When our nation was founded, it rejected the intolerance theocracy breeds. We had, as Jefferson would say in his inaugural address, “banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered.”75 One of our founding principles is religious freedom. And a Christian nation is hostile to that ideal. A Christian nation would destroy that which has made America so strong, as it did in these Christian colonies. America’s foundation deliberately eliminated religious intolerance. But it also shied away from tolerance, reaching instead for a higher ideal—true
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