well said, but you point out one thing i have a problem with. you say that we should do things like pray, or invoke god because we have always done them.
thats a legitimate argument. however i have two questions, that need some asnwers if you could.
1. Just because we have done something for many years, does that justify that we continue to do them? slavery was allowed, but it has been outlawed. Women can now vote, although originally they very few rights. today people of all races, and genders are considered equal, even though from the very first minute this country was born they were not equal. I don't think comparing slavery to worshiping God is a legitatimate comparison so I can't entertain that.
sometimes change occurs becuause it is the right thing to do....
2. Although you may not know this, our money did not always have "in god we trust". These words did not get placed on our money until the 1860's. In fact "in god we trust" did not become the Nations motto until the 1950's. I didn't know that, thanks for the info. It would still qualify as "generations" though.
Today we recite our Pledge of Allegiance, and the words "one nation under god" without giving the thought that the pledge was written in 1892, and it did not have "one nation under god" in it. This was added in the 1950's as well.
the writers of our Constitution, our Founding Fathers did not include any of the things christians currently fight over. All of these things were added many years after the Constitution was written. It's interesting though that we didn't actually become a superpower until the 1890's, so some might venture to say it wasn't until we began recognizing God that we become the blessed nation that we are today.
The inclusion of god in the pledge of allegiance was not a national issue, the people were not crying out for it. this was the idea of a few, they convinced lawmakers and the nation was changed. in 1950, the nation was not marching in protest to add god to the pledge....most people were indifferent. Actually it was more than a few. The change was partly motivated by a desire to differentiate between communism, which promotes Atheism, and Western capitalistic democracies, which were at least nominally Christian. The phrase "Atheistic Communists" has been repeated so many times that the public has linked Atheism with communism; the two are often considered synonymous. Many consider Atheism as unpatriotic and un-American as is communism. The new motto was first used on paper money in 1957, when it was added to the one-dollar silver certificate. By 1966, "In God we Trust" was added to all paper money, from $1 to $100 denominations.
people are afraid of change, its normal. Will you or anyone else be less spiritual or holy if you recite a pledge without the words "under god" ? I'm not afraid of change, however I will never agree with the removal of God from anything. As a Christian, it would be "against my religion" so to speak to do otherwise.
no, you won't.....because a person religion is a personal thing...
just an opinion.
