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Is America a Christian nation? A proof

I am teaching a course for elementary education majors on United States history. It is a broad course that deals with the politics of the classroom as well as the content these future teachers will need. We dealt with the idea of religion and the American constitution recently, discussing James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments” as a way to defuse the emotionally charged contemporary issue of America as a Christian Nation. So here is my question: can we write a proof that provides students with a way to deal with the logic of that statement? Here is my Read more