Atheism Taking Place of Christianity In America !!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: www.dnj.com
February 3, 2007 Author: Marybeth Jensen


To the editor,

Re: "County should take the loss in lawsuit on Commandments" (Jan. 9)

I strongly disagree with your article on the county simply taking the loss in the lawsuit on the Ten Commandments.

Our country was based on Christian principles; why do people have such a problem with Christianity in a country where that was the whole reason it was founded? Our forefathers left England and came to America to be free of persecution and to be able to worship who they wanted: God. But now, 200 years later, any mention of God gets people all riled up. Why have we forsaken what our forefathers risked their lives to accomplish? Their whole reason in coming to America was to worship God, and now anything God-oriented gets a lawsuit slapped on it.

Americans are slowly being forced into atheism. The line "One nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance was put there in the 1950s because America didn't want to be like the communist countries that were forcing atheism onto the people. Now, however, people are taking God out of everything. We have taken prayer out of our schools, tried to take "One nation under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and we've taken the Ten Commandments out of the courthouse. What's next, taking "In God We Trust" off of our coins?

Even though our government is not able to make a law respecting an establishment of religion, it should be able to embrace the religion on which this country was founded. It should be able to put the Ten Commandments up with other historical documents. The Ten Commandments is just as, if not more important than, the Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, etc. If people are offended by Christian principles — the very thing this country is based on — then they can get over it.

[Grant]

A good number of groups did leave Europe and come to America in search of religious freedom, but they were not all Christian, nor did they all belong to the same denominations nor European language groups. There was a very early synogogue in Rhode Island, and the various Amish groups spoke German, and still use a German version of the Bible.

The reason the Constitution forbids the government from making a law regarding an institution of religion is simply that there is more than one religion, the tenants of some of which are strongly opposed to others. The right of each religion to worship according to it's own beliefs is superior to the traditions of any one religion or belief system.

The last I heard 86% of Americans described themselves as religious. The truly religious don't need their beliefs validated by the government, so the argument here is just selfish and silly.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

I am a Deist, and proud of it!