A National God?

Seems that the population doing it was just fine with the state and local government. None of the complaints ever got any action. If the government is down with people bullying other people based on religion, and does nothing to remedy the situation means that the government is tacitly letting the population with those belief patterns know it is OK to go ahead and abuse those without the same belief patterns.

So I guess we were on pretty thin ice with the big guy up until the 1950’s when we stamped on the coinage huh?

Well, yeah: winning in WWII, that was us; losing in Vietnam, that was the big guy helping.

So, all countries that exist have it on their currency? To my knowledge (via Google) Japan’s currency mention no gods, your god or otherwise. So Japan does not exist?

God likes us best.

As has already been pointed out, this may be true for your personal definition of “establishment of religion” but is certainly not true for the definition used by the founders of the Constitution, the dictionary, or the bulk of English speakers.

Why would you think this? It is not obviously not a requirement for a country that doesn’t have it. :confused:

The USA didn’t have it before 1955; how did it become a requirement?

So God only requires it of the US government? Why is that? And how do you know, obviously the USA is not mentioned in the Bible?

God rules over the nations & he does as He pleases.

There are principalities, you may consider what I am talking about as nations, but they are ‘prince-doms’ ruling angelic princes that play this world as we may play a game of Sid Myres Civilization.

Each prince is unique, so what they would like of their people will not be the same as another price, God mediates on our behalf, as we commonly have no idea this is going on, and sets limits on these princes as what they can do to their population and what freedoms a people can have.

That did not answer my question. How do you know our “prince-dom” has the “god on money” requirement, and others do not?

Rev, … he’s delved into “angelic-princes.” Do you really think you’re going to get any sort of answer based in reality at this point?

Bad Bible fan fiction.

If rights sprout from God they can’t be inalienable. What God gives, he can take away.

Ergo, man cannot be endowed by his creator with inalienable rights, and the Declaration of Independence is just a piece of paper or it would have torn a hole in the space-time continuum.

Holy Spirit, aka God told me :slight_smile:

This is, like, so wrong.

Try explaining the Doolittle raid on Japan in 1942. God sent a strong wind to allow the U.S. carrier Hornet* to launch heavy bombers off its deck, then the same bad weather forced the American bombers to hit Japan from different angles, confusing the enemy. Before that, the Japanese Divine Wind had protected them. So clearly God is on our side, or else you have to believe in random weather fronts and other pagan crapola. And how else did we find Saddam and Osama, if not for trusting in our official motto, now reaffirmed by our God-fearing Congress in time for Election Day?

There are no atheists in foxholes, nor are there foxes in atheists’ holes. It’s in the Bible.

*representing one of the Biblical plagues.

He told me you were wrong, and that it’s blasphemous to reference His Holiness on filthy root-of-all-evil money.

Reverend Tim, ULC

God Bless you too, and it’s the love of money that Jesus stated as the root of all evil, not the money itself.

And that being true, seems like a great place for God to put His slogan :slight_smile:

Where’s it been pointed out that that isn’t true for the definition used by the bulk of English speakers?

That doesn’t explain how it’s not.

But the question I have for you, ITR champion is, what does Catholic Teaching have to say about whether God recognizes nations and intervenes on their behalf as groups? What does the Church have to say about the idea that the United States has been singled out by God as Exceptional in some way?