Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Quotes

“The South had been called “to conserve and to perpetuate the institution of slavery as now existing.” It was a duty to “ourselves, to our slaves, to the world, and to Almighty God.” No one was more forceful in promoting this view than Robert Dabney. Reflecting on the Civil War, he argued that slaveholders were doing the will of God by lifting the nation’s four million slaves “out of idolatrous debasement.” By Christianizing slaves the South had brought “more than a half million adult communicants in Christian churches!”
― John Fea, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction

“First, the past can inspire us. Second, the familiarity of the past helps us to see our common humanity with others who have lived before us. Third, the past gives us a better understanding of our civic identity.”
― John Fea, Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction

“Writing in 1855, church historian Philip Schaff quoted an Austrian writer who observed, “The United States are by far the most religious and Christian country in the world . . . because religion is there most free.”
― John Fea, Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction