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Christian Nation Update: Hitchens v. Blackwell

Posted by God Discussion Reporter in In The News on 04 9th, 2009 | one response

Christopher Hitchens and Kenneth Blackwell were guests on MSNBC's Hardball last night. Blackwell, from the Family Research Council, was the former Secretary of State of Ohio and ran for governor on the Republican ticket in 2006.

The debate centered around Newsweek's recent cover story titled "The End of Christian America." Blackwell insisted that the U.S. is a "Christian nation" with "ebbs and flows" in religious faith. He attempted to trace this stance back to the founding fathers and the pilgrims. Hitchens, the author of God is Not Great, opined that there is a crisis of faith in America and discussed the factual evidence supporting the notion that the United States is a secular nation.

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One Response to “Christian Nation Update: Hitchens v. Blackwell”

Deborah says:

April 9, 2009 at 9:26 am

Blackwell doesn't give one single fact. He just keeps blathering on about pilgrims and the founding fathers creating the Christian nation. I wish Chris Matthews would have cut him off so that Hitchens could speak some more — Hitchens was giving facts, not rhetoric.

Since when did the pilgrims write the Constitution? Any why is the source of morality the Judeo-Christian way?

This was sickening, but probably a good portrayal of the mindset of people who insist that we live in a Christian nation.

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