And so, the answer to the question is no, what he's preaching is false.

This country was founded of freedom from religion.

they arrived in India.

flee anything, they didn't just get off the boat. I leave it like that and see if anyone takes the bait.

I've had people get really snotty with me and ask if I slept through history class, then I whack them over the head!

I start in by telling them religion wasn't even mentioned in the Declarations list of grievances to King George. Then I tell them you're thinking of guys like this over 100 years earlier.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/god-government-and-roger-williams-big-idea-6291280/

their religion here, not due to the gov't merely turning a blind eye. That synogogue still has the letter, I think. Thomas Jefferson included an invitation in a treaty with a Muslim nation that they should feel entitled to practice their religion here if they so desired. The inhabitants here may have been as Orthodox as they wanted, but the leaders were influenced by the Enlightenment and deism. Washington accompanied Martha to church as a good husband, but he didn't take communion. Luther Martin's suggestion that God be included in the constitution was voted down. Jefferson's bible erased Jesus's miracles. You must ignore American history to insist that this country was founded on popular ideas of Christian orthodoxy.

I say they were not Christians because, in a time of mass hysteria, they chose to respond by murdering innocent women (and one man), rather than doing the Christian thing, and forgiving them for whatever charge they had invented in the first place.

no nation is "born" of some nutty religion