The separation of church and state is under attack from familiar quarters.

Not only does Texas require a copy of the Ten Commandments to be posted in classrooms, but it has also voted to make Protestant translations of the Bible required reading in English classes. To add insult to injury, the recently released report by the president’s Religious Liberty Commission called for a bridge between church and state rather than a wall as Thomas Jefferson once described it.

The reasoning behind this movement is that America was founded on Christian principles, and, according to some, ought to adopt Christianity as its official religion. This ignores the obvious fact that the Constitution prohibits Congress from giving official status to any religion or from preventing someone from practicing the religion of their choice.

Let’s ignore the Constitution for a moment and ask what the country would look like if it were a Christian nation. The first question we would have to ask is: Whose Christianity?

Would it be Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican/Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed/Presbyterian, Anabaptist, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal........

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