MYTH: The United States was founded as a Christian nation.
FACT: Those who make this assertion confuse the founding of the United States
as a political unit with the settlement of North America. It is true that a
number of the first Europeans to arrive on our shores were religious
dissenters who sought freedom to worship. Many of these people believed they
were establishing some type of Christian utopia, and many supported religious
liberty only for themselves. Most of the early colonies were th
