One nation under God, Isn't that the way the United States of America was founded?

Question

If that is the very core of this land why are a VERY few people trying to kick God out?

Answer 1

Yes! I just wish more people understood that this nation was founded on Christian principles. That our forefathers (and mothers) came here because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs.

Why a few can get their way? Because they are a very loud few. It's up to the majority to start standing up for their rights and drown out the naysayers.

Answer 2

Actually, it's interesting you mention this question. Our nation was founded first by a group of people who were among the most connected in spirit that ever existed. They were annihilated by groups of people seeking freedom to practice THEIR OWN VERSION OF RELIGION.

Within those early sects, there was much dissent over which was the true religion, and the 13 original colonies were arranged along those lines. The 3 most tolerant were, in order: Massachusetts (you had to believe in a Christian God), Pennsylvania (you had to believe in God), and Rhode Island (who accepted all beliefs, and was incidentally the ONLY colony given to colonists (Roger Williams, William Harris, and Thomas Harris) by the Native Americans (Narragansett INdian Tribe) in the spirit of friendship. Rhode Island was founded by people who disagreed that others had the right to enforce a religious doctrine on a population.

I want to keep the doctrines of a Christian God out of laws and public buildings not to "kick God out of America" (what a simplistic assertion, even by those who really believe this- if God is real, S/He can no more be kicked out than someone can make earthquakes stop occurring by not believing in the science behind plate tectonics), but rather so that ALL Americans, not just the "popular majority" feel when they walk into a courthouse they will receive a fair trial not set down by a religion they do not believe in.

Answer 3

No, I remember when Eisenhower added "One Nation Under God" to the Pledge. Fact is, many of the Founding Fathers were far from openly religious. Many were Deists, certainly freethinkers.

No one is trying to kick your God or anybody else's God (Vishnu, Allah, Yod Heh Vav Heh, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster) out of the United States. Just do not force your religion upon any one else. Got that? All those Gods are not necessarily equal in everyone's eyes. Best to leave freedom of religion (and the freedom from religion) as it was intended: in the Constitution.

Think about it: what would you do now if suddenly this became a Muslim country, here in the US? And now you would HAVE all the religion you wanted legislated now referring to Allah. Would you be happy with that? What if it were suddenly Catholic? Or Hindu? Nope, the Founders were very wise with that. They had lived thru religious wars. They knew what a state established religion could do.

Keep God in Church and let government be by man.

Thanks for asking.

Answer 4

The under god part was added in the 1950's to make us feel better during the cold war, so no. Now your argument is against having under god part, and if you don't want it out, then you did not care about what America was founded on and you are a hypocrite. If it was, well, the third Reich was founded to take over, and kill Jews, are you defending that? Some things should not be preserved. If it said under Satan, or Allah, would you still like it? Include all of our beliefs or none, thus, separation of church and state.

Answer 5

The "One nation under God" part of the Plege wasn't added untill the 1950s. America was founded on an idea of religious freedom and the idea that Church and State should be seperate. And a lot more people agree with this than you'd like to admit.

Answer 6

Your argument is flawed. It is not VERY few, but anyway not trying to kick God out just trying to keep to the way America was setup. As Church separate from State, to keep one religion from totally converting America into a religious state Proof is in the news...religious people want religious laws put in for no other reason than to make everyone obey their religious rules which is against everything America stands for. You can worship whatever you want here...just don't try to make your religious rules the law..to do so is treason to everything America is and should be.

So to sum up not trying to kick out of country..trying to keep it out of the government.

Here's a good question though..if Religion is so good and pure why does it lust after secular power so much at all times?

Answer 7

Yes we were......in response to comment one, read why we dont take 'in god we trust' out of our money....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/24/national/main608325.shtml
....Cohen notes that the words "under God" weren't part of the original pledge: They were added in 1954. Supporters of the new wording said it would set the United States apart from godless communism.

The justices could eliminate the words by saying they were added for religious purposes, Cohen reports. Or they could determine that "under God" is akin to the words "In God We trust" on money, which are considered constitutional because they consist of what the law calls "ceremonial deism."

Answer 8

Because God isn't apart of the nation as a whole. This nation is so beautiful because if it's freedom. That includes freedom of it's diversity. I don't think that we should kick God out of this country but we shouldn't be forced to make him apart of us either.

Answer 9

I'm sure you are unaware that the phrase "one nation under god" was added to the pledge during the cold war to differentiate us from the stereotyped "godless communists".

In any case, god isn't being "kicked out". Religions place is in the church and home, not in government, schools, or any public area.

Answer 10

I totally agree with you. All the signers of the Constitution were devout Christians and would have died for their beliefs in a heart-beat. Its a shame that so many people these days have forgotten that. I don't understand at all how our children can no longer learn about God in schools, but they can learn about Allah and Muhammed, and all the other false gods and prophets in the world today.