I guess Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton must have also been fascists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian_ethics
By the 1980s and 1990s, favorable references to "Judeo-Christian values" were common, and the term was used by conservative Christians.[29]
President Ronald Reagan frequently emphasized Judeo-Christian values as necessary ingredients in the fight against Communism. He argued that the Bible contains "all the answers to the problems that face us."[30] Reagan disapproved of the growth of secularism and emphasized the need to take the idea of sin seriously.[31] Tom Freiling, a Christian publisher and head of a conservative PAC, stated in his 2003 book, Reagan's God and Country, that "Reagan's core religious beliefs were always steeped in traditional Judeo-Christian heritage."[32] Religion—and the Judeo-Christian concept—was a major theme in Reagan's rhetoric by 1980.[33]
President Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign, likewise emphasized the role of religion in society, and in his personal life, having made references to the Judeo-Christian tradition
In the first case, I guess we have one statement contradicting the other. Or maybe just the begging of a question as to exactly what the (unstated) “general principles of Christianity” are.
In the second case, there is a difference between mentioning a “Creator” and the Christian Deity. Plus the fact that said Deity is also worshipped as such by some non-Christian religions. So no implication of Christianity there.
Plus, the Declaration of Independence is (unlike a ratified treaty) a document with exactly no legal standing.
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