It's just really annoying that they protest and get angry at the use of God in any everyday situation. We don't try and force you to put it on what you have, so don't force us to take it off. I believe that the majority of the USA believes in some form of God and for us to have that ripped away for people who have no beliefs is not very cool. What's it to you, you're just dust in the wind anyway right?
2006-12-21 17:43:27 · 22 answers · asked by Melissa E 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You want to get an In God I Trust tattoo, go ahead. Apparently the queen of england is stronger than god (inspires more confidence) or have you been watching currency exchange rates? They don't say "In god we trust" on their currency. The Thai Baht's up something like 14% in a year - again, no trust in god there. Hmmm, maybe god's not so great for the currency after all.
2006-12-21 17:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, actually it's not the foundation of the United States.
In fact, the Founding Fathers were Deists that did their best to keep religion out of anything to do with the gvt. The Constitution even guarantees freedom of religion and the wording of it is NOT only limited to Christianity.
Separation of church and state it the only way to go because the majority of the United States is NOT Christian. And even if it was, having your god on everything means that you're denying the very Constitution that the country was founded on.
Honestly, learn your history instead of looking at it through religious eyes. Its really sad when a foreigner like me knows more about your country than you do.
2006-12-22 01:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Remember that phrase "walk a mile in another mans shoes" bit?
Imagine this, instead of "god" it said ohh...Ganesh, or some other deity. Now if that was an eestablished religion that would be one thing. But thats illegal in america.
George Washington said when The United states of America was formed "This country is not, and shall never be based on the the teaching of christianity nor any onther religion."
To say we have religious freedom and tolerance and then put god on everything when the majority believes in it, but still there are MANY who dont, it contradicts the law and common courtesy.
they just dont want religion of any kind influenced in the media or society.
They think, "if you want god, go to church,temple etc"
2006-12-22 01:52:46 · answer #3 · answered by DrewM 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just a quick P.S.
"Under god" was in the pledge since the 1950s - not the 1800s. It was added during the Red Scare or "McCarthyism" as a way to root out commies. Now that it's the holiday season you can watch the old Bing Crosby movie, "The Bells of Saint Marys" and hear them recite the ORIGINAL pledge without the god bit, near the beginning of that movie.
2006-12-22 02:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
LOL. The foundation of this country? Before Europeans arrived there were native indians living free and peaceful. Then these "christians" came over and tried to kill them all. They brought over slaves. They had their way with someone elses country. Where does God come in? Why didnt god want the people of North and South America saved? Seeing as how only arabs would have been saved from the flood explain the mayans? Did god not care about us?
2006-12-22 01:58:20 · answer #5 · answered by melvinbenjamin 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If only what you said was true. Don't you realize that there was a wave of pro-Christianity during the civil war? Not from the beginning. This is where the 'in God we trust' came from.
The problem is that not all people believe in God, or the christian representation, and their tax dollars can not be fairly (constitutionally) spent on anything religious.
Check it out: http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml
2006-12-22 01:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Melissa, I don't know where people like you get this Christian inferiority complex from. Christians pretty much get what they want in this country. God is on the money and in the pledge. Pretty much every politician is a Christian. Yet people like you still write like you are some kind of oppressed minority in this country.
There are not bands of atheists running around trying to change all the laws and change the money or anything else like that. I couldn't care less what is on the money.
Once a year, if that, you hear of some crack pot atheist suing to get the money changed or some other hair brained scheme. People like you suddenly assume that there is some massive underground movement of atheists conspiring to repress you.
If anything it is the atheists who are repressed. When was the last time you saw even a single politician stand up and claim he was an atheist, representing the rights of atheists in government?
2006-12-22 01:50:42 · answer #7 · answered by ZCT 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Your question/complaint is laughable.
The people who came to this country came here for freedom of religion, later on this country was founded under the same belief, despite what you may think, it was not founded on Christianity.
Whats "no very cool" is having to live under all these religious blue laws.
The founding fathers would be disgusted what Christians have turned America into.
2006-12-22 02:07:41 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Douche 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we may be dust in the wind but we do have a voice that can be heard. and its not a belief that most of the US believes in a god its a fact. and when this is a country where church and state are separate, why is there god in so much of it? i know much of our laws are based on those of religions but still. the "one nation under god" wasnt added till later. why should it have been? this isnt one nation under god but one nation under the people that make it up
2006-12-22 01:55:53 · answer #9 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually you will be surprised to know that our nation was not founded off of christian principles.
"under God" has only been in our pledge since the late 1800's, if even then. and "in god we trust" has only been on dollar bills for maybe 100 years. george washington, thomas jefferson, among other founding fathers or great people of the new american government weren't even christian.. a lot were actually deist. and of course the founder of the deist belief is thomas paine. :).. who is a founding father lol.
2006-12-22 01:49:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋