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Dear truth seeker,
You clearly have a well -defined opinion on the subject of religion in our country, but I can not help but wonder from what facts you derive your position. I can not help but to think that the original intent of the founding fathers has been lost on you, as it has been on much of the political left. I am curious if you can tell me where these four quotes come from and who wrote them? If you can not, be honest with yourself and know that your opinions are without understanding....
"Supreme Judge of the World"(notice the capitalizations)
"Laws of Nature and Nature's God"
"with a firm reliance upon the protection of divine providence"
"Creator"
If any politition today were to propose legislation that contained verbage such as this, the ACLU would send their brightest and best screaming down the halls of the local courthouse declaring a serious and dangerous breach of the Constitution. They would suggest, as you have, that this was government promoting religion, a clear violation of the first Amendment. But you see, when Thomas Jefferson included those quotes in the Declaration of Independence he was not promoting any religion, he was laying the foundation for a national philosophy. Notice in these passages that Jefferson never mentions any religion or God, there is no specificity. Jefferson and his compatriots were very mindful to limit their discussions of God to descriptions only. In this they have not endorsed any religion, they have only defined their philosophical belief in a supreme being, just as George Washington did with this statement... "It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to reason wihout arriving at a Supreme Being." In this quote our first president makes a definitive assertion about God in a purely philosophical manner, and in no way endorsed any specific religion. This is all that FDR did and this is all that was intended for the new Memorial, merely a reaffirmation of the philosophy given to us by our Founding Fathers.
PS...Did you know that the phrase "separation of church and state" is not in the Constitution? And that the prominent usage of it did not begin for approxiametely 165 years after the Constitution was written?