2007-12-18 05:53:28 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
All nations are. Just some people feel they have the right to define who that god is.
I am assuming that the thumb-downs, are from people who think there are nations above God!
2007-12-18 05:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 5⤋
It's Only there because of the McCarthy era when everyone was freaked out over Communism. According to the Treaty of Tripoli We are not, and have never been a Christian nation. And in the 1700's the percentage of people who went to Church is LESS then the percentage today.
2016-05-24 22:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that what you've quoted is a motto, not a descriptive phrase or a decree of the nation's religious standing.
When Christ died on the cross and then rose from the grave, He eliminated the need for people to relate to God the Father as "nations." Each individual will be judged on whether or not they have accepted Christ as their Savior.
Matthew 25:32: "All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats..."
The "sheep" that Jesus describes are the genuine believers that showed their love for Christ through their actions toward others.
The goats will be the ones that claimed to be His children but their actions showed that they never were His in the first place.
The key point is that people will be separated in judgment. We will not be judged collectively as a "Christian nation."
The concept of "One nation under God" is simply a motto.
2007-12-18 06:17:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't really know what your point is. This "one nation under God" is a motto and a very purposefully generalized one at that. There is a reason why the people who came up with this motto did not include JesusChrist or Moses or the Easter Bunny in it. I don't have a problem with the word "God" used in a motto and I think it is appropriate but I agree that using a specific creed and religion in that motto would be inappropriate given what our Constitution and Bill of Rights says about seperation of church and government.
2007-12-18 06:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by cattledog 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Of course. If God is omnipotent, has been around forever and will be around forevermore than He has supreme power over everything and thus everything including the US is under God.
2007-12-18 06:20:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The words "under God" are redundant. They were added to the Pledge during the Communism scare of the 1950s. Should we have the "White House under God." How about "The Senate under God?"
I suggest we change the Church of God to the Church UNDER God.
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2007-12-18 06:26:13 · answer #6 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No! like us they,re a nation under a whole bunch of god,s violence loving gods, if their followers are anything to go by.
2007-12-18 06:11:45 · answer #7 · answered by osprey 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
According to our founding fathers, yes and rightfully so.
Anyone who says differently is either re-writing history or, omitting anything that disagrees with their wishtobes.
2007-12-18 15:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by wider scope 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes it still is except on the new liberty dollar
2007-12-18 15:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by The prophet of DOOM 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
does that mean that god is located in a physical place, one which must be above us, in order for us to be under?
isn't thinking of god as a person in a physical location, floating above us, blasphemy? don't the 10 commandments tell us not to make images of god? isn't god supposed to be everywhere?
anyone who uses that phrase is saying that god is above us, and nowhere else, and that is blasphemy, and against god.
2007-12-18 06:14:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋