"The Freedom 250 initiative and its "Rededicate 250" event, fronted by Pete Hegseth, promote their mission as a "national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving" aimed at rededicating the United States as "One Nation under God". The organization, established by the White House, seeks to reframe the nation's 250th anniversary through a focus on Christian nationalism and the ideological assertion that America is an explicitly Christian nation."
I'm not suggesting that these people would crucify Jesus. I would suggest that they would deport him and denounce his socialist nonsense like the statement that "It will be as hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as it is for camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
And of course the founding fathers made explicit that they - unlike the royalty of Europe - were not a Christian nation. In the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, which was negotiated to secure peace with Muslim Barbary states, the United States explicitly stated it was not a Christian nation. Article 11 declared, "[T]he Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion".
Treaty negotiations were initiated by George Washington and the treaty was approved by the U.S. Senate unanimously and signed by President John Adams in 1797. These were hardly controversial ideas among the founding fathers.
So, other than the fact that Hegseth and company don't know Jesus' teachings and don't know what kind of country the founding fathers created, they really seem to be on to something here.
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