A Nation Founded on Christian Principles?

Not exactly. Brooke Allen writing in The Nation explains that no matter what George Bush says, "our constitution makes no mention whatever of God."

"The lesson the President has learned best--and certainly the one that has been the most useful to him--is the axiom that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. One of his Administration's current favorites is the whopper about America having been founded on Christian principles. Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones. God only entered the picture as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuously absent."