RSSVast Majority See Nothing Wrong With “Under God”
J.J. Jackson | August 24, 2009
The phrase, “Under God” being the national motto of the United States really ticks off certain people. Mostly these are people who think that there is some prohibition on government recognizing that God played an important part in the founding of the nation and think that just by the government mentioning God, who is believed in by many different religions, actually establishes one particular religion against the prohibitions of the First Amendment.
Oh well, there just isn’t any helping some people.
MSNBC asked visitors what they think about the phrase and if it should be removed from our currency offering the following choices:
“Yes. It’s a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.”
“No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion.”
As I write this with 15,878,939 votes cast 88% of Americans are smart enough to have answered, “No.”
The problem for people that want to basically adopt atheism and remove reference to God from America by our government is that they also want to establish a religion. Yes, atheism is a religion and forcing government to be silent on the topic of God would itself be a violation of the the first amendment. Mentioning God however does not establish a religion as, like I said, God is ambiguous since many religions believe in Him.
Looks like the Atheists will just have to get over it – again.
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