Why is the world catering to just 14%?

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NBC this morning had a poll on this question:
How many people believe in God?
They had the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the percentage was the same as this:
86% want to keep the words “In God We Trust” on our currency. and God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

14% against.

That is a pretty commanding response. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a mess about having “In God We Trust” on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why is the world catering to this 14%?
 
There was a movement to put “In God We Trust” on US money during the time of Teddy Roosevelt.

He was against it, saying something to this effect: Such words should only be uttered with the utmost in reverence and gravity. Putting them on objects of common use, such as money, only cheapens their importance.

I will also point out that the embolism of 1954, “under God”, was NOT part of the Pledge of Allegiance during two world wars, which we won.

We didn’t start LOSING wars until we started using God’s name lightly in these ways. (You don’t actually think we WON Vietnam, do you? Or are winning in Iraq and Afghanistan?)

Think about it.
 
The purpose of a democracy is to protect the minority from the opression of the masses. Even if a vast majority support a concept, the democratic method is to maintain that balance so that none are trampled.
 
FaithofAbraham said:
The question to ask is which god is on the money, and do you really worship that one.
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I am afraid I would have to classify this poster under the 14%. No matter how much parabolic hyperbole you spout about us worshiping the “same God, yadda yadda yadda” you truly show us that you don’t worship the same Loving Father that we do, or you wouldn’t keep trying to insinuate, OVER AND OVER, I might add, that we’re wrong. I beleive the OP wanted to know why only %14 percent of the country, who seems to have God issues, is keeping the rest of the country from using God and His name in our government. THAT was the question. It wasn’t some convoluted question about money or anything like that. Stop trying to make others look foolish. In the end, it just makes you look ignorant. It states in the Constitution “freedom OF religion” not “freedom FROM religion” You are free to practice any sort of religion you want, just don’t persecute the founding principles of this country… “One nation under God”… a Christian God.
 
Atheism is a religion in which they believe
(in the Deists understanding of the word “God”/Creator)
that their God is “nothing” or that we were created from nothing. That nothing existed, then BOOM!
we popped up or that we always existed
(which then does away with the earth is so-many billions years old since in order for it to have an age, it has to have a birth).

(exhale)

I’d say that a good majority of the 86% only believe in God like they believe in a spare tire when they get a flat.

Once they get a flat on the road of life Thennnnnnnn they remember that they have a back up to get them to the next station.

They take out the spare, put it on their lives, drive until they’re able to fix their regular tire then throw the spare right back into the trunk of their hearts left to be forgotten until the next time that they get a flat again.
 
How to stump an atheist who believes that God can’t exist because everything has to have a beginning and an end:

Ask them how we came to be.
You’ll get the Big Bang “theory”.
(which I believe was introduced by a Priest?)

Then ask them how the particles that came together to cause this big bang came into existance.

Then they’ll have to say that since they created everything that is, they always existed. Nothing created them, they always just were.

Then you reply “Oh, so your particles could always just have been, but my God can’t?”

(That’s when you’ll here the crickets chirping)

:eek:
 
ralphinal said:
The purpose of a democracy is to protect the minority from the opression of the masses. Even if a vast majority support a concept, the democratic method is to maintain that balance so that none are trampled.
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I think a true democracy would protect the masses from a minority. One person, one vote. Majority Rules. That kind of stuff.

You are looking more at the purpose of government in general. US is a Democratic Republic with a constitution the protects the minorities from the democratic will of the majority.
 
Evan said:
I think a true democracy would protect the masses from a minority. One person, one vote. Majority Rules. That kind of stuff.

You are looking more at the purpose of government in general. US is a Democratic Republic with a constitution the protects the minorities from the democratic will of the majority.
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You are correct. I over-simplified
 
StBenMom said:
You are free to practice any sort of religion you want, just don’t persecute the founding principles of this country… “One nation under God”… a Christian God.
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I don’t think the Egyptian Eye of Ra is supposed to be the Christian God, is it?
 
FaithofAbraham said:
I don’t think the Egyptian Eye of Ra is supposed to be the Christian God, is it?
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The thing is, Ra is made up silly fiction. God isn’t.

Just like God isn’t the same as the tooth fairy, Grendel, or the Grinch who stole Christmas. Because, you see, they are all FAKE…
 
He_Man said:
The thing is, Ra is made up silly fiction. God isn’t.
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Yet that’s what seems to appear on the currency along with the motto that we trust in it.

That’s why us Muslims don’t like images of God, since you never know what you are really getting.

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
 
FaithofAbraham said:
I don’t think the Egyptian Eye of Ra is supposed to be the Christian God, is it?
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It is not the eye of Ra.

PLease check this link

money.howstuffworks.com/question518.htm

It is the Eye of Provendence.
According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, “providence” can mean:
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a looking to, or preparation for, the future; provision.
skill or wisdom in management; prudence.
a) the care or benevolent guidance of God or nature, b) an instance of this.
God, as the guiding power of the universe.
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The Single Eye itself can be traced back to Horus, not Ra, and it was a sybol for health, wisdom and prosperity. It is not meant to be a symbol for Horus on the money, but to represent God watching us and making us prosperous
 
ralphinal said:
It is not the eye of Ra.

PLease check this link

money.howstuffworks.com/question518.htm

It is the Eye of Provendence.

The Single Eye itself can be traced back to Horus, not Ra, and it was a sybol for health, wisdom and prosperity. It is not meant to be a symbol for Horus on the money, but to represent God watching us and making us prosperous
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Do the Ten Commandments say you should make an image of God and worship it? Especially one that looks like the one Egyptians worshiped, after Israel had just gotten out of the sin of Egypt?
 
FaithofAbraham said:
Do the Ten Commandments say you should make an image of God and worship it? Especially one that looks like the one Egyptians worshiped, after Israel had just gotten out of the sin of Egypt?
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First, no one is worshiping that symbol. People may worship money, but that is not a uniquely American thing, nor is it new. Just because the symbol can be traced to a people does not mean it holds the same meaning to someone else. Meanings of things can change as cultures do.

Not to hijack the thread, but the whole “image-worship” thing is a little more complicated than simply making one. After the Ten Commandments, God told the Jewish people to make an Arc with golden angels upon it. God told them to make a golden serpent to hold up and those who were biten would be cured. The issue comes in when the image becomes the idol and begins to be worshiped.
 
ralphinal said:
The issue comes in when the image becomes the idol and begins to be worshiped.
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If you say that an image is God is it likely to be worshiped as God? Why do people think if you take that motto off the money it means that we aren’t worshiping God properly in the country?
 
In the 1940’s and 1950’s when I was in school, we were taught that in this country we had the rule by the majority who always respected the rights of the minority. Now it seems we have changed, we are more concerned over the rights of the minority than the rights and rule of the majority.
I hope we will continue to have freedom of religion not from religion. Some people feel that if we take God out of everything we will be truly free. Taint so. This is not the rule of the majority in our country.
 
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