Are You a Christian Nation?

How can you tell if a particular country is a “Christian nation”? Compare it to the US of A, of course, the archetypal “Christian nation”.

If you tried and nearly succeeded in killing off an entire indigenous population and stole almost all that population’s resources, you might be a Christian nation.

If you invaded your neighbor to the south and seized half its territory under false pretenses, you might be a Christian nation.

If you enslaved millions of Africans and their descendants, you might be a Christian nation.

If you were unable or unwilling to end slavery through peaceful means, you might be a Christian nation.

If you compelled a portion of your subjects by brutal force and waging total war against them to remain under your rule despite their preference to secede, you might be a Christian nation.

If you aggressed against another imperial power to steal its imperial possessions, you might be a Christian nation.

If you brutally suppressed an insurrection of the populace of one of those stolen possessions, you might be a Christian nation.

If you interposed yourself in two world wars and targeted civilians with weapons of mass destruction, you might be a Christian nation.

If you invented, manufactured and stockpiled atomic and nuclear weapons sufficient to destroy the world many times over, you might be a Christian nation.

If you supported an interventionist foreign policy that entailed support for brutal dictators, death squads, assassinations, false flag terrorist attacks, and wars of aggression, you might be a Christian nation.

If you kept the descendants of your former slaves segregated and downtrodden for a hundred years after emancipation, you might be a Christian nation.

If you have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world, you might be a Christian nation.

If you use torture and imprison people without charges or trial, you might be a Christian nation.