“I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles ….” This statement by John McCain is reality. http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071001/D8S0MO881.html.
My wife and I vacationed to the East Coast a few years ago. Our destination was colonial and U.S. revolutionary sites. One of the facts that came to our attention was that only Christian land owners could hold office in colonial times. Those Christians did not even include Catholics. So while it is accurate to say that there is no reference to any specific religion in either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution the nation was controlled by Christians.
Today this country recognizes Christmas Day, Easter, and Palm Sunday as national holidays. There are no national holidays in honor of any other religion. The American Jewish Committee (http://www.ajc.org/) may be deeply troubled by Senator McCain’s remarks but he was truthful.
What is a Jew, Muslin, Buddhist, or Hindu to do? Nothing. There is no persecution of any group because they are not Christians. The founding fathers were not particularly religious and perhaps they understood that the nation might change over time.
Religion does play a significant role in this country as it does in most countries of the world. If this country’s majority population did become something other than Christian the national holidays would change. Primarily we are a secular nation that does recognize reality.
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Interestingly enough, the policy of the country regarding national holidays is not the same as public schools (or at least the school district in which my children are enrolled.) We do not have Easter break, we have Spring break. We do not have Christmas break, rather Winter break. There are no Christian holy days for which school is not in session. By contrast, we did not have school on September 13th, as it was Rosh Hashanah, and soccer games were cancelled for September 22nd as it was Yom Kippur.
Prior to the winter break, the kids learn about the customs of many different religions. While the school recognizes Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and Christmas, it very obviously ignores the religion behind Christmas. Christmas, apparently, has nothing to do with Christ. Christmas is about Santa. My children have learned about the religion behind the Jewish holidays in school, but their non-Christian friends don’t know that Christmas is about the birth of Christ.
My point ? Just to offer more information for you to ponder 🙂