The United States was not founded as an explicitly Christian nation

Evidence

Is the United States a Christian nation? No. It explicitly states that the United States was founded in no way on the Christian religion in the Treaty of Tripoli. Christianity is not mentioned in the Constitution. The major movers and shakers, when it comes to creating our governing structures, were mostly deists. Thomas Jefferson cut everything out that he didn’t like from the Bible, and there wasn’t a whole lot of it left. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 115

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Treaty of Tripoli wording is the founding document evidence — worth verifying the exact quote and its context before deploying in an argument.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 115
• XREF: connects to: The Christian-nation founding story contradicts documented history; American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569; American national identity remains fundamentally Judeo-Christian at its core — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 159 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The Christian-nation founding story contradicts documented history #corroborates (0.95)
• American national identity remains fundamentally Judeo-Christian at its core #contradicts (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 159
• About 60 percent of Americans believe the US was ever a Christian nation #responds-to (0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 49
• American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes #complicates (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569
• American religious freedom was historically limited to Protestant Whites #qualifies (0.72)