If America no longer wants to be a ‘Christian Nation’…

What Exactly is Better?

A ‘Christian Nation’ is not a nation made up in entirety of people who profess faith in the name of Jesus Christ. A Christian Nation is a country that functions on Christian principles.

But if Christian principles are discriminatory in character, clearly they are not ideal to mediation of relationships within societies that already are secular in composition. Suppose, however, that Christian principles can be shown to be secular in character. We have then that it cannot be discriminatory for a country that is founded on Christian beliefs to characterize itself to be a ‘Christian Nation’.

What then are

principles of a ‘Christian Nation’?

The First principle of a ‘Christian Nation’ is Love that looks out not only for his or her own interests, but also for the interests of others. In Finance and Economics, this principle is referred to as interest in arrival at Pareto optimal outcomes. Whenever there is Pareto optimality of outcomes in society, with acknowledgement of constraints of mutual coexistence in tow, everyone attains to the best possible outcomes. Pareto optimal outcomes are possible because society recognizes everyone’s minimum claims. It would be the case for example, that the rest of society would be…