2007-01-31 09:53:17 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
God is mentioned and believed in most religions? Many names are used for God, but he is God!
2007-01-31 10:17:57 · update #1
The liberals are trying to secularize this nation. They believe that if one single person in this country is not a Christian or religious in any way, then we can have NO mention of God in anything, because me might offend him/her.
Wow, wouldn't want to do that.
I don't know what happened to majority rule around here. Last I heard the extreme vast majority (over 90%) of this country was Christian. But we're pandering to the extreme minorities (the atheists, among others). What happened?
2007-01-31 14:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by T 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
People are just confusing "freedom OF religion" with "freedom FROM religion."
Both sides of the debate have their knickers in a twist. America is a BIG country, and the religious lines are more or less clear across the middle "red states." Blue state people are upset at the way Red-Staters treat religion, and vice versa. Then, when people mingle in states with different beliefs, that is grounds for a lawsuit, apparently.
Liberals: Believe it or not, it is okay to ALLOW prayer or individual Bible-reading during free time in school.
Conservatives: Believe it or not, there are people that are actually offended by mentioning God in the pledge.
If everyone would be reasonable without forcing anything on anyone, America would be okay.
2007-01-31 20:44:09 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
America was founded by people on the premise of "Freedom of Religion". This does not mean that everyone in America believes in God. We are a vast melting pot so therefore many, many religions. I am all for everyone having the opportunity to worship whatever diety they choose. It's to bad people can't allow others to worship how they see fit. I do believe however, that God does not belong in certain places. That would be school and Government. We can't subject people who are of another religion to "ours". I am 44 and remember when we first moved to Texas (I was 12). They used to have a prayer every morning over the PA system. While I thought this was strange, I prayed right along since I was of the Lutheran faith and believed in God. However, this was changed midway through my 6th grade year to a silent moment. This was to allow those who believe differently to reflect however they chose to, not how the school wanted them to. Because we have so many religions in America, it would be considered discriminatory to continue to allow God to be everywhere. I don't know this for a fact, but I read once that Christianity is one of the smaller, in terms of worshipers, religions. The reality is that not everyone believes in the same God or in God at all. Since we have allowed the USA to become this wonderful melting pot, we need to respect everyone's beliefs. Things have changed, not necessarily for the better, but they have changed. Gone are the times of Christmas parties for our children in school. They are now called "Winter Parties" or something silly like that. I guess if you want God in your life, it is your responsibility to keep him there and at the same time being accepting of other people and what they believe. God will only be taken out if you allow it.
2007-01-31 18:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by Lani C 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do you worry so? As long as you keep God in your heart & in your day to day doings, then what the rest of the citizens in the USA see/hear/ or even know about the God you believe in doesn't matter, nor does it infringe on their freedoms of rights to believe in what they choose to believe. The US has grown up & many people from many cultures live in freedom. The world moves forward, we adapt or get left behind & become resentful for all the changes. So many have different beliefs. Celebrate your tolerance for others to choose different beliefs as they would for you, which means not pushing your God & ideas of faith on to others. That is what a Christian God would ask of you. As long as you remember your roots of faith you have nothing to fear & much to learn.
2007-01-31 18:13:33 · answer #4 · answered by Doug 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Late last year the new president elect of the Christian Coalition proposed that the organization should expand its interests to focus on doing the things Christ commanded--helping the poor and sick, among other things.
He was forced to resign after being informed by the board that they were more concerned with their political agenda--and that such a move might "offend" the rank-and-file.
About the same time, a "good Christian" --the headd of the Evangelical Alliance" was "outed" for, among other things, purchasing meth.
If you want to know who took God out of American public life, now you know.
2007-01-31 20:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not like they go in churches and take 'god' out. Would you be happy if budists became majority and they put budists phrases in schools and other places? The US is not nearly strict as some other countries in Europe. In France the president cannot even say 'God bless' like our president during speech.
2007-01-31 18:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because of Separation of church and State..also not everyone believes in God,especially a religion based god..I'm Agnostic and choose to believe in god my own way.Many other countries are far different in the sense that they actually keep the separation of church from the government,unlike the U.S where we have too much religion mixing with our government and that is a horrible thing to happen..I for one would like more to be done to keep a religious God out of my Government and State and especially schools..
2007-01-31 18:09:16 · answer #7 · answered by Art 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Seperation of Church and State.
I don't believe in God, the first amendment states that Congress can respect no religion. If my tax money, as a non-believing citizen, was being given to schools and churches for causes and teachings that I do not believe in, it would violate the first amendment.
Look at it like this.
You are a Christian, and you pay Taxes. Now imagine if you payed these taxes so that schools that preeched Satanism could get money. You'd be supporting Satan, you wouldn't like supporting Satan would you?
2007-01-31 18:13:00 · answer #8 · answered by kass9191 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Seperation of church and state is good. Its awesome that here in America you can practice any religion you want. If we start putting God into our government, we would end up like the religious run Arabic countries over there constantly at war with other religious sects. With the seperation of church and state, we are saying, yes, believing in God is good, and he should help you in your decisions, but YOUR religion should not dictate how another man with OTHER beliefs has to live. Its the glory of freedom. If everyone is FORCED to practice one main religion, where is the free will that God himself gave to us?
2007-01-31 18:03:57 · answer #9 · answered by X-tina 3 · 5⤊ 4⤋
There's not much that can be done about it because more and more churches are becoming liberal minded, embracing the universal church type mentality.... which basically calls the Bible a liar and denies the miracles of Christ and his status as Son of God, including his resurrection.
But - in the last days the Bible said these things would happen. Godlessness, without natural affection, lovers of self and so on. So we now know that the time is much closer than ever before. In that we can take great pride that Jesus is coming sooner than ever before.
2007-01-31 18:05:22 · answer #10 · answered by Victor ious 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋