Does that make us a Christian nation? Hmmmm. Perhaps we have mainly Christian traditions that stem from our beginnings and cultures. Certainly, as the above document rightly points out, our legal system uses Christian oaths/articles of faith (Bible), and our founding fathers agreed that Bible reading and even teaching scripture in the public schools was a good and moral thing to do to train up good citizens. The New England Primer and the McGuffy Readers, used for over a hundred years in public schools (tell that to the modern textbook selecting committees that need to spend loads of money adopting the latest dry-as-dust readers to inflict on children) are still in print today, unabridged, and used among homeschoolers. They are rife with scripture and morality tales straight from the Bible.

Are we Christians? Not unless we want to be. Christianity is a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, his son. No one can *make* someone else be a Christian. Not even church membership grants that. That is unbiblical. And that is not American.

But neither is revising our nation’s past. We can be truthful about our nation’s Judeo-Christian origins without being threatened by it. This is not a reason to revise all the textbooks in the public schools and obliterate any references to Christianity so that they do not offend a person of another (or no) faith. Where is the offense?

This is history, plain and simple.

Am I, dear reader, a Christian? Unequivocably, yes! As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. Will we celebrate American Religious History Week in our homeschool if it is made “official”? Probably not. I dislike contrived things like that. We recycle even when it’s not earth day, and we read poetry even if it isn’t national poetry reading day. I don’t need a politician telling me what to celebrate. But then my children and I do have the luxery to spend time rooting out truth like detectives, studying original documents and the people who wrote them (the good, the bad, the ugly). Public school kids aren’t so lucky. Perhaps these contrivances are necessary for them.