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In response to Obama's shout-out to atheists, a gentleperson with the handle "pmular" wrote,

Please verify your facts

Go back to Plymouth Rock. Tell me who they were and why they came. They were Christians fleeing a religiously biased country and looking to start a new life based on their Christian beliefs. Please do not revise history.

Uhm, one small group of religious assholes does not make a country. They neither formed our country, nor founded our country. They were the first wave in a long series of settlers. They arrived on a continent already occupied by non-Christians. Most of them died the very first winter. They were followed by non-Christians. Those who formed our country (our so-called "founding fathers") were not all Christians. The high-profile founders, such as Jefferson and Washington and Franklin, were in fact deists, which is atheism-lite.

My original rant still stands. This is not, nor ever has been, specifically a Christian nation. Part of the Constitution is dedicated to that very idea: that the nation has no business telling people what to believe. Secularism is the idea that religion has no place in government, and it is codified in our Constitution.

I appreciate your concern about historical revisionism, pmular, but really, it is the Christians who claim this is a Christian nation who are performing the worst and most blatant revisions.