To say that the United States was founded on Christian principles and then observe how many of these more vocal "Christians" behave is to expose their blatant hypocrisy. The fundamental Christian principle (which Fundamentalists seem to forget) is "Love thy neighbor." Jesus said it, and who should know Christian principles better than He? It is not "Screw thy neighbor right, left, and center," which is the principle this country all too often operates on, on a personal level, on a national level, and on an international level. Christian principles? I think not!

And I speak as one who regularly attends a main-stream Christian church and is often embarrassed to call himself a Christian because of the loud mouths and general behavior of the so-called "Christians" who insist that they are "the silent majority."   

Don Firth