The Trump administration released a document called “The 1776 Report” that attempts to rewrite American history by recycling a number of discredited “Christian nation” myths.
The new American government saw no need to include appeals to the divine its foundational charter, a powerful signal that when it came to religion, this nation wouldn’t presume to tell people what to believe or not to believe.
Contrary to popular belief, nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires officeholders to take an oath of office on the Bible -- or any other book, for that matter.