Smells and Bells or Snakes...or Mormons? (A U.S. Official Church) #shorts #history #christianity

Mike, Blake, and Marshall discuss the complications that would arise in identifying and defining who would be in and who would be out if America adopted "Christianity" as its official religion in this excerpt from Episode 301 ("The Founding Intent") of the United States of Amnesia podcast series "A Christian Nation?", which explores the view held by some Americans that the United States was founded as a Christian country.

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