The right wing in America tries to tell us we are a Christian nation, rather than a nation of a majority of the Christian faith.
The fact that the Constitution does not have a religious test, that we have separation of church and state, is ignored, as the right wing promotes its propaganda.
So they tell us the Founding Fathers were “good Christians”, when in fact, in many ways, they were not!
And they fail to accept that many of our Presidents have doubted organized religion entirely, or have been Deist, Unitarian or Quaker , which are seen as a few steps away from atheism by many experts.
For the record:
The following Presidents had NO specific religious affiliation:
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin Pierce
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barack Obama
Deist Beliefs
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Tyler
Unitarianism
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Millard Fillmore
William Howard Taft
Quaker
Herbert Hoover
Richard Nixon
That makes 18 Presidents who do not fit the mold of a typical religious person.
At the same time, some Presidents have been very devout, including:
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
The other half of our Presidents were irregular church goers, and in many cases, they were not very committed to their faiths, but would identify with a faith that was considered Christian, with John F. Kennedy the only Catholic President..
The largest number of Presidents (12) were Episcopalians; 8 were Presbyterians; 4 Methodists; 4 Baptists; 3 Disciples of Christ; 2 Congregationalists; and 2 Dutch Reformed Church.