More crime, more drugs, more child abuse, more divorce, violent children. Unsafe to allow children out of sight, porn available to all, children w/o parents, single moms struggling.
What have we gained. Seems a lot of freedom has been lost.
2006-07-09 10:54:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No, we are alot worse. That is the reason why a country as young as ours got to be the best country in the world.....because it was built on God. But since God has been removed, it has been steadily declining..........
2006-07-09 12:35:35 · answer #1 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What are you talking about? When exactly was this that everything went downhill. I haven't seen any evidence that there is actually more crime today than 50, 100, or 200 years ago; and many of these things have nothing to do with religion in gov't. Would religion in gov't really make for less violent children, or less divorce? No, they aren't related. But you can blame single moms struggling on the efforts of many conservatives to kill welfare programs over the years.
2006-07-09 18:01:54 · answer #2 · answered by DakkonA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We haven't gained anything but we have lost alot. Without God nothing is possible. But with God man can do everything. Some of these fools need to go to somebody's church and read a freakin bible every now and then.
What are you idiots talking about anyway GOD is in everything we do or come in contact with. Including the Governement. Just because someone says he isn't there doesn't mean he isn't. You can't see him either, but that doesn't mean he isnt real.
2006-07-09 17:59:35 · answer #3 · answered by Brittany V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was not meant to be in our government. The founding fathers were quite proud of the fact that they had created a secular system.
James Madison: "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise" (letter to Wm. Bradford, 1774).
Benjamin Franklin: "Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn different tenets . . . I began to doubt the Revelation itself." (Autobiography, 1817-18).
John Adams: "The United Sates of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature . . . It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [founding the government] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven." (A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88).
Thomas Jefferson: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus . . . will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." (letter to John Adams, 1823).
Thomas Paine: "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself than this thing called Christianity." (The Age of Reason, 1794).
Treaty of Tripoli: "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion." (signed 1796 by John Adams, but initiated by George Washington).
The primary sources make it clear that God is not meant to be a part of the political process of the United States. James Madison denounced even the presence of chaplains in either Congress or the military as unconstitutional. If our leaders today would base their decisions on reason rather than personal religious agendas, we would be a much healthier nation.
2006-07-09 19:00:22 · answer #4 · answered by bela 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was never in the government, but George Bush talks to him. God told George Bush to invade Iraq, at least that's what George Bush says. And we should not argue with God, should we?
2006-07-09 18:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was never in the U.S. government. And since there's no common agreement on who God is and what He favors (wars, capital punishment, social security, environmental protection, etc), it's probably good that He's not in there to be co-opted by politicians.
2006-07-09 18:22:21 · answer #6 · answered by A B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god is still in the government! what are you talking about "weve lost god?" what is congress trying to do? legislate morals for the ENTIRE country! what is bush trying to do? pander to the religious right! ten commandments carved in stone outside courthouses are told to remain by state supreme courts! you can't tell me that there is complete seperation of church and state because there simply isn't. as long as there is religion at all, there will always be sects trying to achieve power in government, and it simply doesn't belong there is any situation.
2006-07-09 18:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We havent removed god out of Goverment, YET. However It prob. will not be long. And you can better belive if if does happen it will be under a democats watch.
2006-07-09 18:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by HwyManSc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is getting worse. When did Bush remove god? I must have missed that glorious day!
2006-07-09 18:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by polllydooodle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exactly - people thought religion was "controling" them - instead of realizing it was providing safety nets and rules that protected them and honored God at the same time - that is why God has the commandments He does.
2006-07-09 17:59:37 · answer #10 · answered by KitKat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋