Where is it written anywhere in our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Bill of Rights (you know, all that stuff our country is based on) that we are "One Nation Under God"?
Because I have yet to find it.
It was added to the Pledge of Allegience and on our printed money during the 1950s when we were in the Cold War and just wanted to stick it to the communists.
Last I checked, our Nation wasn't founded in the 1950s, nor was it founded on the pledge of allegiance or money.
Edited to add:
Just wanted to correct a mistake I made. "In God We Trust" was what was added to our currency in the 1950s. Not "One Nation Under God". That was only added to the Pledge of Allegience. My bad.
You’re correct. I was wrong. The “One nation under God” is in the pledge of allegiance and not in the constitution.
I did a search and here is what written and no written in our constitution;
The Constitution does not mention God, Jesus Christ, or Christianity.
The only reference to a higher being is the phrase "the Year of our Lord" in Article VII.
The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
However, nearly all state constitutions mention God or the divine:
God or the divine is mentioned at least once in each of the 50 state constitutions.
The word "God" appears in all but four state constitutions.
The Declaration of Independence from 1776 actually does mention God in multiple places, including:
Nature's God: Thomas Jefferson uses this term in the Declaration.
Creator: Jefferson also uses this term in the Declaration.
Divine Providence: The Declaration's closing sentence invokes "the protection of divine Providence".
Judge: The Declaration mentions God as a judge who is judging the world.
The Declaration's authors were aware of many different religious beliefs, including those of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and American Indians. The Declaration's language about God doesn't necessarily limit God to a Christian or Judeo-Christian God.
The Declaration's authors believed that a good God created the world and demanded justice, liberty, and equality from those who govern it. They believed that the success of their endeavor relied on a higher power's intervention.
It's interesting that you acknowledge that the Founding Fathers took the time to come up with the Establishment Clause (the part of the First Amendment you quoted that is the basis for the concept of separation of church and state) to ensure that the US wasn't governed by religion.
You also acknowledge they were fully aware of different religions and were accepting of that to the point that they did not specify which god they were speaking of.
Add what you've said in previous posts about respecting the Constitution AND how happy you are that Trump is going to really put the Christian God back into the country, and that sums up to one big goddamn question mark for me.
Do you not realize how you're contradicting your own argument here?
I don’t believe I’m contradicting myself at all. Personally, yes as a Christian myself, I’m very exited to have a President that believes in Christ as I fully trust he will lead our country in the right direction. I never said however that our Government should force this religion on anyone nor govern by it. There is a difference between having a President who is being led by God in his governance and a government who enforces religious rules upon its people. I trust in the first not the latter. I fully believe in the Constitution as the basis of our government and with a healthy separation from the church. We can have seperation of Church and Government while still acknowledging there is a God and that we are a nation under God. Religion and spirituality is not the same. We don’t need religion - we need religious freedom which is what I pointed to with the Founding Fathers and their tolerance of different religions.
Where is it written anywhere in our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Bill of Rights (you know, all that stuff our country is based on) that we are "One Nation Under God"?
Because I have yet to find it.
It was added to the Pledge of Allegience and on our printed money during the 1950s when we were in the Cold War and just wanted to stick it to the communists.
Last I checked, our Nation wasn't founded in the 1950s, nor was it founded on the pledge of allegiance or money.
Edited to add:
Just wanted to correct a mistake I made. "In God We Trust" was what was added to our currency in the 1950s. Not "One Nation Under God". That was only added to the Pledge of Allegience. My bad.
You’re correct. I was wrong. The “One nation under God” is in the pledge of allegiance and not in the constitution.
I did a search and here is what written and no written in our constitution;
The Constitution does not mention God, Jesus Christ, or Christianity.
The only reference to a higher being is the phrase "the Year of our Lord" in Article VII.
The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
However, nearly all state constitutions mention God or the divine: God or the divine is mentioned at least once in each of the 50 state constitutions. The word "God" appears in all but four state constitutions.
The Declaration of Independence from 1776 actually does mention God in multiple places, including:
Nature's God: Thomas Jefferson uses this term in the Declaration.
Creator: Jefferson also uses this term in the Declaration.
Divine Providence: The Declaration's closing sentence invokes "the protection of divine Providence".
Judge: The Declaration mentions God as a judge who is judging the world.
The Declaration's authors were aware of many different religious beliefs, including those of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and American Indians. The Declaration's language about God doesn't necessarily limit God to a Christian or Judeo-Christian God.
The Declaration's authors believed that a good God created the world and demanded justice, liberty, and equality from those who govern it. They believed that the success of their endeavor relied on a higher power's intervention.
It's interesting that you acknowledge that the Founding Fathers took the time to come up with the Establishment Clause (the part of the First Amendment you quoted that is the basis for the concept of separation of church and state) to ensure that the US wasn't governed by religion.
You also acknowledge they were fully aware of different religions and were accepting of that to the point that they did not specify which god they were speaking of.
Add what you've said in previous posts about respecting the Constitution AND how happy you are that Trump is going to really put the Christian God back into the country, and that sums up to one big goddamn question mark for me.
Do you not realize how you're contradicting your own argument here?
I don’t believe I’m contradicting myself at all. Personally, yes as a Christian myself, I’m very exited to have a President that believes in Christ as I fully trust he will lead our country in the right direction. I never said however that our Government should force this religion on anyone nor govern by it. There is a difference between having a President who is being led by God in his governance and a government who enforces religious rules upon its people. I trust in the first not the latter. I fully believe in the Constitution as the basis of our government and with a healthy separation from the church. We can have seperation of Church and Government while still acknowledging there is a God and that we are a nation under God. Religion and spirituality is not the same. We don’t need religion - we need religious freedom which is what I pointed to with the Founding Fathers and their tolerance of different religions.
Going to have to agree to disagree on that. 🤷♀️