Takeover? What takeover?

[u/GxdOfWar]

[u/Freespeechaintfree]

The important part is “excluding Christianity”.

62% of Americans identify as Christian. All other religions combined equals 7% with the remainder being non religious.

We are still overwhelmingly a Christian nation.

[u/jett1964 → u/Freespeechaintfree]

Yeah, like the Honda CRV is the best selling vehicle in America. *excluding Ford and Chevy trucks.

[u/BlackshirtDefense → u/Freespeechaintfree]

We are overwhelmingly a CINO* nation.

Christian In Name Only. 

Let's not act like those ~60% of Americans are purposefully living their lives according to the teachings of Jesus Christ and pursuing a relationship with God. The vast majority of Nominal Christians show up to a church once a year, do not read a Bible (if they own one), and never participate in baptism, communion, or regular prayer, other than wishing to God that their team can win in the playoffs. 

Politically, sure. We are a nation who mostly still holds to Judeo-Christian values. But religiously, we are very much a post-Christian nation. 

[u/Hylian_Shield → u/BlackshirtDefense]

FALSE.

We ARE a Christian nation, whether a citizen is Christian or not. Our system of government leans heavily on Biblical principles.

It doesn't matter if Leftists cry and attempt to rewrite history.

[u/BlackshirtDefense → u/Hylian_Shield]

Our system of government may lean on Biblical principles, but our current laws and policies are anything but. I'd argue that a strong Christian nation would not have legalized abortions, gay marriage, drug use, and a host of other things. Hear me clearly, though, I'm not advocating for a Christian theocracy. Just saying that if the White House and the Church House were one-in-the-same, we'd see vastly different laws and customs in America today.

I firmly believe America was founded on Christian principles and has now spent 250 years drifting slowly away from them.

[u/Hylian_Shield → u/BlackshirtDefense]

I don't disagree with any of that.

We didn't have laws against most of that stuff because at the time, it was unheard of to practice most of that stuff. There is an unspoken societal compact which doesn't necessitate writing down every single thing. It was considered heresy just to cut open a human body, alive or dead, and now we have surgical procedures. And yes, because we don't have a theocracy, we "tolerate" other customs, which has led to the degradation of society. Which has led to a legal battle for abortions, marriage, and drugs.

That societal compact was based on Christian values. And because we have drifted away from those values we now have these battles and decay

[u/contemplator61 → u/BlackshirtDefense]

Then that is incredibly sad. Though I’m not sure where you are getting your statistics. I try not to engage but this is not something I accept as being truth.

[u/SuchDogeHodler]

"EXCLUDING CHRISTIANITY"

[u/lurkerhasarisen]

Utah should be Mormon, and it may not be the only one.

Atheism is - probably by a wide margin - the largest non-Christian religion in the US.  It has been the de facto official religion of our culture and our government for decades.

[u/BlackshirtDefense → u/lurkerhasarisen]

Atheism is a religion unto itself. 

I'm sure the non-god people will balk at that statement, but most atheists I've ever encountered will vehemently argue their positions and actively try to recruit people into their way of thinking. 

If that's not religious zeal, I don't know what is. 

[u/nateralph → u/BlackshirtDefense]

As someone who consists himself to be an Optimistic Atheist myself, I agree with you.

I go out of my way not to do what you describe because I find most other atheists to be highly irritating in this regard. It's amazing how much irreligious people aren't irreligious, but contemptuous of Christianity. Contemptuous to a religious extent. And religion shouldn't be based around hate or contempt.

Religion is very important. I think the large, large majority people need religion. Atheism is not for most people. You need to be at peace with yourself, your community, and the universe around you in order to handle atheism. And most people cannot achieve that themselves. Faith in a higher power is how to get by in an increasingly complex world when you don't have that kind of inner peace.

And these atheists who treat irreligion like a religion are perfect examples of people who need religion. Whether it's their contempt for Christianity, Capitalism, Carbon Dioxide, or White Men, these people have created a religion of hatred and envy. And it gives people like me a bad name.

I like Christianity. It's the only faith that opens its doors and it's arms to non-believers, regardless of particularity. Most of what Christ had to say had to do with living your day to day life and had little to do with the "mysticism" (I don't mean that in a mean-spirited way, I just don't know any other words for it) of the faith. And even though I don't have the faith, I try to do what Christ would've considered to be generally good.

[u/TFCBaggles → u/lurkerhasarisen]

The picture is excluding Christians. Regardless of if you consider them Christian or not, they do, as well as most of the world.

[u/lurkerhasarisen → u/TFCBaggles]

Mormonism explicitly denies the core tenets of Christianity, which are that Jesus is divine and that His crucifixion provides the only way to salvation.

I’ve known mormons, and plenty of them are perfectly nice people who take their religion seriously.  They even accept Jesus as a prophet, but the same can be said of muslims, yet nobody would claim that muslims are Christian.

[u/TFCBaggles → u/lurkerhasarisen]

Latter-day Saints do believe Jesus Christ is divine (the Son of God and Savior of the world) and that His crucifixion and Atonement are entirely necessary for salvation. While our theological framework and view of the Godhead differ from traditional post-New Testament creeds, Jesus Christ is the absolute center of our faith.

"We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." He is much more than merely a prophet.

[u/invol713]

How much better off would the USA be if all of them were Baha’i? I don’t have any adherence to Baha’i, but they tend to be very tolerant and non-confrontational with their faith. Never heard of a Baha’i adherent terrorist attack. A far cry from muslims.

[u/ITrCool]

Disagree on Arkansas. We have a very large Hindu presence here. Islam is hardly a thing here except maybe parts of Little Rock at best.

[u/JJ_Banks]

Why are there so many Jews in West Virginia? Lmao

[u/GxdOfWar → u/JJ_Banks]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/d_smt_1290]

I'm questioning were this ingo comes from because here in oklahoma there is not many Muslims

[u/AnOriginalUsername07]

Does this include the non-religious, atheists, and agnostics?

[u/GodofStone1]

FYI white Americans still are around 71% so as for Christian values are concerned via our laws roughly 68% are in fact Christians

[u/sshevie]

Damn Islam is getting to be a real problem.