Hank Kunneman is, in addition to being a far-right MAGA pastor, self-proclaimed "prophet," and unabashed conspiracy theorist, a Christian nationalist who believes that "the devil and his demons" are trying to cover up the fact that this nation was "dedicated" to Jesus Christ at its founding.
During a recent episode of the "Elijah Streams" program, host Steve Shultz claimed that "more and more people" are realizing that "we were founded as a Christian nation," even though there is also "this huge movement that says we were never a Christian nation, we weren't founded as that."
"I don't even listen to that stuff because there's documents in our Constitution, in our Declaration, in separate writings of our Founding Forefathers that purposefully put in there a dedication, an honor, an including of the God factor in the history of our country," Kunneman replied.
There is, of course, nothing in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution that in any way dedicates this country to God; nor would any private writings of the Founding Fathers, should they even exist, override the Constitution regarding this issue.
"Look at what they did when Jesus' body was in the tomb," Kunneman continued. "They started formulating immediately lies throughout the government. They went to Herod and said, 'All right, here's what we're going to do: We're going to lie. We're going to say that his body is stolen.' So the devil and his demons and the fake news and people that believe that stuff have a real problem with lying. Of course they're going to lie. The demons do not want you, I, others to acknowledge that there were covenants, agreements, prayers, dedication of this great country at our founding to the Lord Jesus Christ."
Again, there is no evidence to support Kunneman's assertion that covenants or dedications to Christ were made on behalf of the nation when it was created by the signing of the Constitution in 1787 or when the Constitution was ratified the following year. The men who wrote the Constitution could have created an officially Christian country; instead, they banned both an official religion and any religious tests for public office.
