After all "in God we trust" Or don't the atheists believe in our constitution?
2007-09-13 02:32:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"In God we trust" is not in the Constitution. The Constitution guarantees freedom of and from religion.
2007-09-13 02:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
"In God We Trust" appears nowhere in the Constitution. It never appeared on our money, either, until the Civil War (for coins) and the Red Scare (for currency). Our Founding Fathers never would have approved of such a thing, because they knew the dangers -- to religion AND government alike -- of mixing the two.
If the Founders wanted a religious government, they would have said so in the Consitution. Instead, the only things in there about religion are (1) a prohibition on laws respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, and (2) a prohibition of religious tests for holding office. God's name never appears. Not a single time.
Read some American history. Please.
2007-09-13 02:48:56 · answer #2 · answered by Cap'n Zeemboo 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that:
1) The Constitution doesn't say "In God we trust" or anything like unto it, and
2) The Constitution gaurantees freedom of religion for those who believe in God and for those who don't. You seem to be trying to tear down this Constitutional right...I find that offensive.
2007-09-13 02:42:46 · answer #3 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Read all above saying that "God is not mentioned in the Constitution".
A Constitution is a "social contract" establishing a society and not a book of truths.
2007-09-13 02:45:30 · answer #4 · answered by CiberNauta 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
That is the Constitution in full. I invite you to look over it and find "In God We Trust"
here's a helpful tool. Use the Ctrl F function.
2007-09-13 02:37:48 · answer #5 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Even as a non-American I can't believe the ignorance shown here. The constitution doesn't have "In God we Trust" anywhere. It's not even the original motto.
Americans, bring back E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one) as your motto!
2007-09-13 02:45:08 · answer #6 · answered by Valarian 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because we have religious freedom to believe and not to believe. And by the way there is no amendment in the constitution that states, thou shalt believe in 1 god. Read a history book its called Seperation of Church and state.
2007-09-13 02:37:53 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus IS REAL 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God is not mentioned in the Constitution. It was put onto our money in the 50s.
Furthermore, I have seen the constitution. I have not seen God.
2007-09-13 02:38:15 · answer #8 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Romans thirteen:2 and John 19:11 the two point out that the authority of the secular state is instituted via God, and that one and all Christians could desire to obey it. The exception to this rule is that if the state says that Christians won't be able to pontificate the gospel (one million Peter 4:14-15). fortuitously, the form protects our appropriate to try this. of direction the know God is greater significant than something secular, to me, and could be to each Christian. in spite of the fact that, not truthfully everybody is Christian, so i does not anticipate non-believers to sense the comparable way.
2016-12-16 19:00:41 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it possibly be that the US Constitution itself guarantees that no one is required to believe in god?
Learn something.
2007-09-13 02:38:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋