US was founded by what were essentially atheists.

[alex_antonin]

"thE Us iS a cHRisTiaN naTiOn" No it wasn't. In fact, most of the founding fathers believed in something called Deism, which is pretty far from being Christianity. Basically, instead of believing the Bible, they believed in a God that created the universe and then fvcked off for parts unknown. No Eden, no sin, no Heaven or Hell, no miracles, no Satan, and Jesus was just a normal human being like anyone else. None of that biblical garbage. Just an absent God that spoke to nobody, inspired no holy books; a god that had probably vanished forever the moment the universe began and let it do its own thing. And I think the only reason they weren't atheists was because they didn't know enough science to conceive how the universe could exist without a god having at least started the proverbial ball rolling... but they knew enough science to recognize that such a god, if it existed, had not been in the picture for any of human history.

So yeah. The US was never a Christian nation. It was founded by the closest thing the era had to atheists at the time.