Do you believe that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation?

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most of the founding fathers were Deists and not Christians.

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Nope.

I don't know what "founded as a Christian Nation" means, though. So, I can't answer.

Christian ideals are not encompassed in the Constitution, or the by-laws of this nation. Some are based purely on Universal rights. But not Christianity

Of course it was founded as a Christian nation, and that fact is as plain as the name of Jesus, which appears MANY times in our Constitution.

Yes, most of our laws fall in lock step with the bible.

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I believe this country was founded on Christian principles.

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Name some of these Christian principles. Quote a scripture, compare that to the laws if this country.

References please

If you read the private letters of the founders as well as their speeches there are constant references to "God" and "Providence (God)". Not a lot of "Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior."

This is also true of the letters we have from Civil War era correspondence. Centenary College was founded as a Christian School in 1825. (if you consider Methodists to be Christians); yet when class was canceled due to the Civil War the minutes of the last faculty meeting said "God Help the Right."

It did not say "Jesus Help the Right."

Nope.

There are some Christian values within the founding documents, but it wasn't set up as a Christian nation.

"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence. - John Adams

It was not founded primarily by Christians but it was explicitly founded NOT to be a Christian state. Hence, the establishment clause. Were the values of the founding fathers Judeo-Christian as opposed to say, Eastern? Absolutely. But the fabric of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were based on Enlightenment principles, not the Bible.

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"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.

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Sorry, his offhand quote doesn't make up for the actual content of the Constitution.

Not to mention Jefferson and Franklin were clearly Deist.