America is still exceptional

America is still exceptional:

Even though Christianity has become increasingly marginal in the life of the country it is remains more vital here than in most places in Europe. Further, the fact that the founders established the American republic as a secular state serves the interests of those of us who still believe the faith.

Unlike Europe, because we have not had a national church and because the states gradually adopted the same policy the church is free to flourish in ways that it was not in Europe.

The future of the church and the Christian faith is not tied to the fortunes and whims of the state in the way that it was in Europe. It is not a tool in the hands of the magistrate that it often was in the old world Christians in America have a great deal for which to be thankful this election day. Chief among those them is the relative absence of civil restraint on the practice of the Christian religion. There are other ways in which the USA may be said to be exceptional but this one is enough for today.