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Pat Buchanan, in a debate with Bill Press over the issue of Obama's failure to continue Bush's annual Christian-Right-Only "National Day of Prayer" event on MSNBC today, actually said that "Christians built this country."
While Pat whined about the "de-Christianization"of America, Press kept trying to point out that we are not a Christian Nation.
But beyond the history: What an arrogant and divisive thing to say! You could just as easily say that this country was "built" by African slaves, or immigrants, or by a group of Founders who wrote a secular Constitution. (Or you could say it was "discovered" by Native Americans.)
The only conceivable purpose to such rhetoric - not to mention the ostentatious celebration of one subset of one religion that Bush turned the National Day of Prayer into - is to create separate tiers of citizenship: members of the Christian Right, and everyone else.
