A Christian Government

     I find it interesting that there has been an increasing trend of politicians, especially those in presidency, using scripture and religious language to guide their agendas. Continuously, the United States has claimed to not be a Christian nation but was founded with strong Christian ideals. Thomas Jefferson famously stated, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." The clause in the First Amendment in the Constitution allows people to exercise their own religious practices without persecution. Why then has both the US presidency, Senate or Congress been completely immersed in Christianity. Below is a list of the religious denominations of all of the Presidents and as you can see, there have only been three non-Christians who have sat in the presidency seat. 

     In conducting my search of religious affiliations in political positions, I discovered that until recently in 2012 there had never before been any Middle Eastern religious practices in one of the three power houses that run our country. Again I ask, why has it taken so long to accept these non-Christian denominations into power? One possibility could be that with the changing societal norms, people have finally reached the mind set that if we can have an African American as a President, we can begin to accept others who have previously been rejected from these places of political power.
History in the Making