Why don't they remove the saying "In God we trust" from our government?

Question

And also God is again found in the US's pledge of allegiance as "Under God"? Doesn't having it violate the separation of church and state?

I know it doesn't really violate the separation of church and state. I just wanna know why we label ourselves a religious country, when our laws say that government should be separate from religion. I just wanna know if there are any real justifiable reasons not to remove these references to a god these things.

Answer 1

In God we trust is on our money, not in our government. It stems from a reasoning behind the U.S. government as our mint, however, the Pledge question is completely different.

When I was growing up in the 50s we didn't say "under God" and believe it or not everyone was pretty well adjusted, we didn't have any satanic monsters ruling the country, and our education system was a stand out.

Then some fanatic decided we had to say "under God" and things started sliding downhill very fast from that point on. So in my opinion, making that phrase mandatory in the Pledge was not a great idea! I never say it, even today when I say the pledge, I just go straight on past that part and say indivisible. Try it. I guarantee you won't grow horns and you won't become a serial killer!

good luck to you.

Answer 2

I think they still have it for the simple fact that when they seperate church and state it is talking about the fact that the government has no authority in the church's constitution. The country was founded by God fearing men and women and was established by them...laws were enacted under the same government. Mentioning God has nothing to do with the church. Therefore, they are not going against the church and state seperation act.

Answer 3

Doesn't having it violate the separation of church and state?

If you can tell me which religion the government is sponsoring, based on "In God we trust"....then I'll agree it's a violation.

Part 2 answer: the roots of this country are buried in the faith of our forefathers. We broke away from the UK and a country that sponsored a religion. That did not make us an atheist country, but one where we are free to worship God or not worship God. I suppose there is not a problem with removing the statement, but it denies our heritage.

Answer 4

Find " Separation of Church and State in the Constitution" its not there. It says that there will be no state endorsed church. By acknowledging God is not establishing a State Church. If we removed His name from everything we wouldn't have very many Historical Documents, much less a country. Because if you promote that we will have another Revolutionary War, count on it. My family and I haven't fought for this country just to let Atheists take over.
God Bless America, in Whom we still trust...at-least the majority of us!

Answer 5

You have no clue as to what the separation of church and state means. The government cannot establish a religion as happened in England which led people to flee here to worship as they wished. No one is forcing anyone here into a particular religion except, perhaps, the atheists who feel we should all be atheists and the government appears to be supporting that in many ways. Atheism is to be the government supported religion. Jews, gays and Christians should wear arm bands so they can be identified!!

Answer 6

The First Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

That means that there is to be no official religion of the United States, such as Great Britain has. It also establishes the freedom of religion.

"One nation under God" does not say which god it means. If you are an atheist, you do not have to say "under God" if you do not want to.

Answer 7

The word "God" refers mainly to the Judeo-Christian deity. "Allah" is for the Islamic deity, "Buddha" is for one of the Buddhist deities, "Zeus"...you know where going. The government violates the First Amendment by saying "In (insert deity) we trust" or "one nation under (insert deity)." Below are relevant quotes from Jefferson, main author of the Declaration of Independence, and Madison, main author of the US Constitution.

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence the act of the Whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1802 letter to Danbury Connecticut Baptist Association

"Here the separation between the authority of human laws, and the natural rights of Man excepted from the grant on which all political authority is founded, is traced as distinctly as words can admit, and the limits to this authority established with as much solemnity as the forms of legislation can express....
Religious proclamations by the Executive...seem to imply and certainly nourish the erronious idea of a national religion...The idea also of a union of all to form one nation under one Govt in acts of devotion to the God of all is an imposing idea."
-- James Madison, Detached Memoranda, ca. 1817

"Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
-- James Madison, 1822 letter to Edward Livingston

Answer 8

Just because something says GOD does not man that it is connected with the state more than 80% of the country worships one god or another why people make such a big deal about this crap I will never know, why cannot you accept things, and live a peacefull life without destroying what makes other people happy I will never know.

Answer 9

These things were done priot to seperation of church and state. Secondly, our nation was founded by a mostly Christian and Catholic religon base. Both religions revolve around a God. Thus when they formed the constitution, poems, Bill of RIghts, and first set of laws they revolved around the religious beliefs of how people should act in a soceity. Leave it alone already. It is apart of our history.

Answer 10

"Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950's as a knee jerk response to McCarthyism and the "witch hunt" battle against the "godless Communists".