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"In God we Trust" first starting appearing on coins during Civil War times. It was basically a feel good type gesture to try to get everyone to refocus on God. It didn't consistently appear on all money until the 50's. In the 50's it was voted as our national motto. It was basically a slap in the face to the russians who were looked at as heathans. The supreme court ruled it ok because they said it was more a ceremonial deity. I'm not really saying you are wrong about this, I'm just giving some background.
Common belief - Our founding fathers were Christian. Actual Fact - Our founding fathers were deist or Unitarians. I'm not sure when the Church tried to re-write history and claim our founding fathers were Christian, but I can assure you, they weren't. "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." -Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason During John Adam's administration they ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship which states in Article 11.... "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." T. Jefferson - "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Treaty of Tripoli - Passed during Washington's presidency. "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." |
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Point well taken, but it makes no sence as to why
... One nation, Under God... = Un-constitutional In God We Trust = Constitutional Whether the slogan on money is Ceremonial or not, I don't see how the two phrases are different. I also don't see how money can be ceremonial, yet the Pledge to the country, is not. H-D
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I might agree with you there... I'm still not sure about it. The Under God thing will get overturned if it hits the Supreme Court.... meanwhile, as long as you aren't in that 9th Circuit juristiction, you can say it anyway.
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Oh, i wasn't saying the separation isn't necessary, like i said, i don't even know much about the topic. i was just saying that it seems people are taking every little thing about God out, not just the necessary clash-with-law and stuff, but everything, because they don't want to admit His existance. For example (and its probably not a very good one), Creation isn't even considered a possibility in schools anymore, even though evolution is just a theory.
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Well, that depends on what you believe. And people believe many different things. There are many who don't consider evolution just a theory. I don't think it's about taking God out of things per se; it's more about keeping government out of religion. That's what I was talking about.
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Well the official status of evolution is it's a theory. Scientists say it's a theory. It can never be proved, it can be supported but it will always be a theory. According to my wonderful little Biology class, nothing can ever be proved, if you write in your experiment "it proved that" you lose marks, it can only be "it supports the theory that" etc
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That's true about a lot of things, including the existance of God. Some believe in God, others do not.
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One thing, you looked up religion. Religion is like a type of custom or tradition that a person can be in and has it's own ways of worshipping a chosen idol...christianity on your dictionary.com gave this as the very first definition-The Christian religion, founded on the life and teachings of Jesus.-so yeah...God isn't head is he, you don't need to believe in his son and the holy spirit do ya? And another thing, I agree w/ Julie, the seperation of church and state has really messed up schools, 50 yrs ago there wasn't school killings, there was believers and families that stayed together...today after taking that out people find God as a fake thing along w/ his son and the holy spirit. So yeah it's really important to have church and state b/c he helps so much, who cares if you pray in school, cuz life is supposed to be about praising god and that's just what yer doin. Sry, don't want to argue :noargue: just my two cents worth w/o anyones pity. :P
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Um, I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Taking prayer out of the schools is not the reason there are school killings. I'll agree it has to do with the breakdown of the family, but not a lack of prayer. Plenty of people worship these days, just not in publicly funded buildings.
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I agree Dogstar It has a lot to do with the family of the child. I think there are a lot of families in the world today that shouldn't be allowed to have children Especially abusive people
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Ok, but instead of Christianity, let's incorporated Taoism into the schools... or how about Wicca? |
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Yes, this is how science works. You don't claim to know all there is to know about the universe, you just figure out the best explanation possible, and if a better one comes along, you adopt that. Yes, evolution is a "theory". So is Einstein's Relativity, and so was Newton's Gravitation before that. If you are using "theory" as if it's some sort of insult then I don't think you are fully understanding the idea. Anyway, enough off-topic there, I didn't want to derail, but I can't stand that. bgivens33 has said everything that needs to be said here. I don't buy that people would be fine with judges and government officials cluttering up offices, schools, and courts with quotes from the Qu'ran, Tao te Jing, or Wiccan whatever, if Christianity didn't get the same sort of representation. But the problem is where do you draw the line? When the religion that wants representation in government is a "cult"? Who determines that? I'm sure there are people who think Roman Catholicism is a cult. |
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I'm not using 'theory' as an insult, i'm using it to disprove those who say "it is true". Whenever i talk about my beliefs, if i think the other person will think i'm saying "it is right", then i make sure i always say "i believe" etc. Evolution is a theory, Creation is my belief. It goes both ways, i'm not saying "this is right and this is wrong". I use "theory" to be fair.
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