>Head-in-the-Sand Liberals

I'm not sure how much credence I want to give the author of a book called "Letter to a Christian Nation," which I presume is about the US.

This is a work-in-progress, but here's something I've written about this whole "Christian Nation" thing:
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Of all the issues in the culture wars, I think what bothers me most is the idea that the United States is "a Christian nation."

I am a Jew. I belong to a synagogue, not a church. I don't celebrate Christmas and Easter. I celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover. On Friday nights and for eight nights of Chanukah, I light candles. For a week in the Fall, I eat dinner in a roofless hut in my yard. For a week each Spring, I give up bread, rice, corn and other grains to commemorate the exodus of my ancestors from Egypt.

But I'm also an American. I've voted in every election, primary or general, since the day I turned 18. I've given countless hours to my community and its schools. I've traveled to more than 30 of the 50 states in a desire to see America. I go to baseball games and watch football on TV. On the 4th of July, I ooh and aah to fireworks.

Those who claim this is a Christian nation reject me as an American. They reject my husband, the grandson of immigrants for whom the American dream became a reality. They reject my sons, a Phi Beta Kappa college graduate and a student at Yale, who believe in the potential for this country and ache over its failures.

The claimants also reject my past. My mother and her siblings, orphaned by the Holocaust, who among them raised 10 children and celebrated when the last of us graduated from college. My father, born and bred in Texas, who fought for civil rights for all Americans.

They reject my great-uncle Mordecai, an economist who served in FDR's "kitchen cabinet" and my great-uncle Raphael, a West Point graduate who rose to the rank of Colonel. They reject all my ancestors, back to Abraham and Rachel Cornelia Levy, who came to this country in 1818.

The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a country where the Christian majority lives side by side with Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists and everyone else as we work together toward our common goal, a better life for our children and a better future for our world.
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Tamar (a liberal born and bred)