text: Christianity helps certain people be the best possible versions of themselves, but we were not founded as a Christian nation. The original Pledge of Allegiance read 'One nation, indivisible...' and all the 'In God We Trust' stuff only started in the 1950s.
  
  "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims)" - Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, signed by John Adams and unanimously ratified by the Senate without any need for debate