... of ways you can tell the United States is not a Christian nation, I would have to include, quite near the #1 position, the statistic (referenced in this column by Paul Krugman in the New York Times) that 17.5 percent of children in this country live in poverty.
I don't actually think the U.S. *should* be a Christian nation. But, as a Christian, I do believe we should be a nation that takes care of its poor (and its sick, homeless, oppressed... those are all clear Biblical mandates). Given the number of U.S. citizens who identify as Christians, it doesn't make much sense to me that so few people seem to care that we aren't doing a better job of it.
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