Comments on: Affirming motto In God We Trust is the religious equivalent of marking territory http://secularholyman.com/2011/11/05/one-nation-under-god/ Aspiring to the ennoblement of the human spirit Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ash http://secularholyman.com/2011/11/05/one-nation-under-god/#comment-276 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:51:30 +0000 http://secularholyman.com/?p=148#comment-276 Hello

]]> By: douglasfalknor http://secularholyman.com/2011/11/05/one-nation-under-god/#comment-54 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:02:51 +0000 http://secularholyman.com/?p=148#comment-54 I know there are Christian political parties in some of the European countries, socialist parties, too. Something tells me that the Christian parties in Europe wouldn’t be as far out as one here would. I’ve heard it speculated that when all the folks emigrating from the old world to the American colonies and earlier that they brought us a load of God genes or whatever genetic package that might actually have some effect on the outcome of a person’s religiosity.

Nobody has ever been able to keep God and Christianity out of the government. At the same time, there are Christians including ministers in the separation of church and state organizations. I believe their thinking is that they might be the next victim if “state” was taken over by a denomination or sect. Then there could be a very serious competition with the control of the state going to successively strong religious organizations.

Are you familiar with the term “tyrrany of the majority”? It warns us against mob rule. It’s the one nagging problem that speaks volumes against pure democracy. It surfaced for me again when I was wondering if we could have a national referendum. Google that and you’ll find scary talk and scarier people that’ll make you want to hug a Tea Partier. A few stops at those websites and I gave up on the national referendum idea.

I’ve heard that the measure of a democracy is how it treats it’s minorities. Maybe we should have expected that 396 to 9 vote–especially from a disfunctional congress. Maybe it took their approval rating up to ten percent?

]]> By: Justin Acuff http://secularholyman.com/2011/11/05/one-nation-under-god/#comment-50 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:33:51 +0000 http://secularholyman.com/?p=148#comment-50 I can’t really disagree with you on your views regarding religion in politics, especially considering that I have published articles for an editor of mine regarding the same issue. The mention of “God” by a politician immediately, to me, is a violation of my first amendment rights (establishment clause).

However, I can play devil’s advocate.

How can you say that we should keep God and Christianity out of government as long as the majority of the country is Christian? Shouldn’t it be subject to vote, as are the rest of our laws?

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