Misprint - God in the Constitution?

Question

My mistake, I meant God in the Dec. of Independance. I apologize... completely my fault.

Answer 1

Ok dude, first of all, here's the line you're referring to...

"When, in the course of human events, ...to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

There's the word God, mentioned once in the Declaration of Independence. But it's not the Christian God persey, it refers to the laws of nature and nature's God.

Second, the Declaration of Independence is not a basis for law, it's just a letter that says "We're Out, Pe@ce."

Addendum: In response to people who think the founding fathers were inspired by Chrstian values: "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."- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature ... [In] the formation of the American governments ... it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven ... These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."- John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1788.

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 2

What?

What's your question?

Yes, God is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. So is Creator, and Devine Providence.

So?

Answer 3

Jefferson did not believe in the Christian God persay. He is the man that removed any references to Jesus' divinity from the bible but kept the rest because there are good moral lessons. He, along with many of the other founding fathers, was a Deist - someone that believes that god is in everything.

Answer 4

ummm... yeah... i've been saying this a bunch, but America was founded on the beliefs of the Christian Bible. So of course God appears in the Declaration of Independence. And in the pledge. And on our money. Liberals need to just deal with it already. (And if they try and make a lawsuit against something religious, and the courts decide on it, the system is willfully violating the Seperation of Church and State Clause. Betcha didn't know that one.)

Answer 5

And again, it doesn't say God, it says "their Creator". Christians may feel like this is splitting hairs, because you believe strongly in the biblical God and feel that any reference to a "creator" is obviously a reference to Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah; but the word choice was deliberate. It allowed Deist and Christian founders to interpret it how they saw fit. Jefferson himself was clearly not a Christian; check out his letters to friends and family.

Answer 6

Doesn't say which God though right? I have a copy here and it doesn't say "Big daddy, Jesus and the Holy Spook". Could Be Jesus, Allah, Slappy the bait shop guy, Papa Smurf, etc

Answer 7

FYI - God, in the christian sense (or any religious sense) is not in the DoI. The only mention of GOD is the term "Nature's God" which was meant to be generic to promote freedom of all religions.

Just clarification. Thanks!

Answer 8

John J

It seems the leftist lie has affected many. Most of the founding fathers were in fact Bible studying Christians. I imagine you learned this "fact" from your Berkley U history professor.

Answer 9

We find these truths self-evident, - that God created all men equal??