Y.U. Prez: ‘Are we a Christian Nation?’

From Dr. Richard Bishirjian, of Yorktown University, and Don’t Quit U:

Yesterday our BASP President told the Turkish People that America is not a Christian nation. What is a BASP and is America a Christian nation?

In the early days of William F. Buckley’s editorship of National Review that journal featured essays by a delightful group of intellectuals that Buckley collected from the cream of the conservative crop. One of them was an Austrian Catholic, Erik Ritter von Kuehnnelt Leddihn. In addition to writing books and regular columns in National Review, Erik von Kuehnnelt Leddihn would tour America giving lectures on college campuses. I attended one of his lectures during a time of racial turbulence in the United States in which he observed that America doesn’t have a race problem, America has a Black Anglo Saxon Problem. (BASP)

He perceived that the clamor for equal rights of Black Americans had a uniquely Christian and Anglo Saxon cast reflecting the religious and legal traditions of Anglo Saxon England. Yes, when the Constitution was framed the Founders decided against having an Established Church like the Church of England, but virtually all were shaped by the Protestant Reformation, the religious impulse that motivated the early English settlers, and the Founders understood that the American people reflected Protestant Christianity in all its many forms. America was—and is—a Christian nation, and when Americans of any race express their grievances, we do so in terms of that tradition and the English political and philosophic tradition…Continue reading on Don’t Quit U. >>

Also see Obama: We’re not a Christian Nation (Video) on RightBias.com: