America is NOT a Christian Nation

America’s political and metaphysical foundation is not Christian — it is Greco-Roman. Our system of governance was built upon two classical ideas: the Greeks' Democracy and the Romans' Republic. The U.S. Constitution is a hybrid derived from these two traditions.¹ The divergence between Greco-Roman and Christian understandings of “truth” — and how each applies it to public life — has led to the dangerous political bifurcation we face today. Recently, the president used the word evidence followed closely by proof in a context that made clear he does not understand their relationship. Terms like reason, rationality, evidence, and proof belong to the same Greco-Roman tradition of inquiry — the dialectic — the philosophical process by which “truth” is pursued. The scientific method is this process applied rigorously to the material world. But Christianity does not define truth this way. If a significant portion of the population has been educated primarily in churches² — institutions that often prioritize belief over proof — then we cannot reasonably expect that group to make sound, rational decisions when electing representatives who are meant to enact the collective will of an informed republic and the universal franchise fails