In God We Trust
“In God We Trust” is on our money. “One nation, under god” is in our pledge of allegiance. The constitution and bill of rights was based on the morals of Christianity. So our country must have been meant to be a Christian country and therefore we should allow Christians to do whatever they want and screw anything else. Keep the ten commandment monuments in courts and in public places and keep that nasty Qur’an out of those places. Keep trying to get people to swear to the bible under oath and teach creationism in science classes.
If you detected sarcasm… well there was a bit. I will express my views in the order that I feel like with no particular organized strategy.
The bill of rights in no way comes straight from the bible. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me[...]” does not coincide with the first amendment which tries to protect the peoples freedom to choose and practice whatever religion they want. Also in the first amendment is the freedom of speech, which goes against many Christian actions.
Now there is a difference between people who call themselves Christian and people that are Christian. The difference is whether they are peaceful people who respect others whether they are “sinners” or not (like Jesus did), or if they ignore Jesus’ example and go around telling everyone they are going to hell and should not spread the word of Satan… I mean reason.
“In God we trust” was not on our money until after the civil war, and took several decades until it was on all our currency. So to say that the country was founded on God because its on our money is like saying the chicken hatches into an egg. Sure its on our money now but so are numbers, and the numbers have been there for longer. So I believe the country was founded on numbers.
The pledge of allegiance remained unchanged for a long time. It was written in 1892. In 1923 “my Flag” was change to “the Flag of the United States,” and then “of America” was added to that a year later. The words “under God” added after “one nation,” were first added in 1951 by the Knights of Columbus for their own use, and was not officially recognized until 1954. So we were not a nation under God until 1954.
While I have no problem with people worshiping their religion, I find it against the founding fathers ideals to try and force it down the throats of every one. These religious intrusions into state affairs goes against the idea of separation of church and state.