The USA Is Neither a Theocracy Nor a ‘Christian’ Nation
We Are Not a 'Biblical Republic' as Speaker Johnson Wants Us to Think
The USA is certainly not a “Christian nation,” although it’s a great country filled with many sincere Christian believers.
Speaker Mike Johnson, the former president DJT, and many Republican Representatives do believe the contrary: that we are indeed a core Christian nation. Speaker Johnson delivered his opinion November 14 on CNBC’s Squawk Box, stressing that “The separation of church and state is a misnomer … People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote. It’s not in the Constitution.”
The First Amendment clearly states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Johnson tries to deflect from this absolutely clear statement by criticizing an 1802 letter of President Jefferson. (Jefferson’s letter said the First Amendment builds “a wall of separation between Church & State” — as it does.) Styling himself as a Republican originalist, Speaker Johnson then needs to follow the First Amendment literally and not interpretthe third President’s private letter for his own theocratic reasonings.
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