People are being killed all over the world in the name of one religion. Are we going to keep pretending this religion's beliefs isn't at odds with our own written law?
If I owned a newspaper it's headline Saturday morning would have read 'Freedom of Religion' with a large picture of all the dead French in the road.
They are not allowing us freedom from their religion, and thus, do not belong in our countries that share this ideal.
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[–] iamjanesleftnipple 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Check again, god is not in the Constitution. You're thinking of the Declaration of Independence. In that case, Nature's God is the only mention with the word "God" and later the word Creator is used, so if we're talking the first god of nature I assume you mean Anu, the Sumerian sun god, who is one of the oldest recorded we have on record and thus the closest to "Nature's God"
Nope, god was not in the original pledge, that was added in 1954 - http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm
[–] SecularPenguinist 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
The revolutionary war was about many things, namely independence. Taxation and autonomy from the church of England were indeed paramount.
"under god" was not added to the pledge until 1954.