It is true that a few of America's Founding Fathers weren't Christians, but a great number of them were. When they set up government in America, they did establish it as a Christian country. In our Pledge of Allegiance, we pledge our allegiance under God.

In response to Ranjani, the Bible and the Koran are different, in belief and beginning. In the Koran, Allah incites his followers, as I have said, to kill the infidel. In the Bible, Jesus Christ teaches his followers to do good to those who harm us. The Bible teaches us to tell the good news of Christ's sacrifice which saves the believing and repentant person, and thus win spiritual battles not violent physical ones. The Koran was revealed to Muhammed, who did not write the revelations down himself, but passed them onto his followers orally, who in turn wrote them down. One of his followers did indeed turn from the Islamic faith after he writing down Muhammed's dictations, and suggested something slightly different than what Muhammed said. Muhammed agreed to the change, and the Scribe realized the relgion was man-made, not of God. The Koran does in fact contradict itself in a few places, although one person alone had all the revelations. The Bible was written by men, to whom God revealed his word. Although a there is not one main person who wrote down God's revealed will, the Bible never contradicts itself.

We weren't founded as a Christian nation, per se. Many of the more famous Founding Fathers did not belong to any set religion. The only basis for such an argument would be that America became a place of refuge for religious refugees of all branches of one religion.

You're right. It's a testy time for the Islamic faith, but people have to get over their fears at some point. We're supposed to be the tolerant nation. This man was elected to Congress – he is an American…but simply because he's of a different religion doesn't mean he shouldn't be able to go through the official proceedings of a Congressman.

The Bible in ceremonies is purely tradition, and for that, it can stay. But I still say religion should stay out of government, because it leads to controversy like this where basic freedoms collide with age old precedents. Nice post! I'm too verbose for word limits

Personal attacks on this blog will not be tolerated. You may think I'm an idiot, but you calling me an idiot is not arguing a point. You are free to criticize my points and my argument, but you are not free to perform ad hominem attacks.