I don't know where you get your information from, but you couldn't be more wrong if you wanted to be.
Something like 65% of Americans are Christians. Less than 1% is jehovah's witnesses and mennonites don't even register on a scale.
The separation of church and state stems from our first amendment. It protects our religious freedoms by prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise of faith. From before our country was united people like Roger Williams was already bringing this out and it continued and Thomas Jefferson brought it out even more so.
We had a non-christian with obama and it didn't work out too good. Most of the things he was noted for were not his developments at all. He just happened to be in the white house at the time.
I consider Christian and Catholic different - I know Catholicism is a subset, but it's different enough to be its own religion. My majority comment was just listing a few other religions / non religions, but what I meant is a majority of people are t the same religion, they're different... But I see the way I worded it was just listing 3 religions and making it sound like those 3 are the majority.
As a Catholic I never would have went to an evangelical church - and I'm sure they're the same way. While the principal of the religion is the same... There are some key differences.
So my main point is who decides what teachings go into schools? And what if the next president is the 1% religion? People don't (or shouldn't) vote based on religion.
I know the seperation of church and state is more of a saying for people to understand the intent of the first amendment, and isn't an amendment in itself. But the establishment clause - preventing the government from establishing a specific religion, would prevent them from forcing commandments, or Koran, or any religion in school, wouldn't it?
The government should be neutral when it comes to things like this. Stuff like schools should be a safe space, Ask yourself if you were agnostic, or were one of the minority religions... And they tried to mandate a different religion in schools,.how would you feel? It'd prevent a lot of parents who arent that religion from sending their kids to school, and would hurt the country more than help it.
Anyone is free to choose their own religion, what me or my kids believe shouldn't be forced upon us by the government or any school.
My kids gone to church with his friends - he's gone to their baptism and confirmation. He's also went to bhuddist temples with his grandparents. My kids got a kind of his own, and he's free to explore any religion he wants and decide what he believes in. I feel like it's wrong for me to shove my religion / beliefs at him... So why should the government be able to?
Don't get me wrong. I think a governor mandating the 10 commandments be in all schools isnt some huge crisis that shouldn't be happening, and it's something people should fight to the death for. do think it goes against the constitution and should be over turned, maybe it's not specifically spelled out word for word... But I don't think anyone can read the 1st amendment and it's clauses and can say forcing any religion in a school is what was intended by it.
I didn't know Obama was non Christian. Honestly I don't know the religion of any politician... It's never mattered to me. Most of them say they're sending out their prayers, which I guess would suggest religion... but never paid much attention to it. I did just google it and it says Obama is a Christian though? And he's been going to the same church for 20 years, etc etc.
But let's play devil's advocate and use it as an example. Let's say he was islamic - how would you feel if he mandated schools put the Koran in their schools for everyone to read?
Less and less Americans are religious these days, or are of a different religion than compared to even 20 years ago. If every governor got to mandate his religion be taught in schools, or displayed some part of his religion in schools... It'd cause so much havoc.
