No, an expression of our trust in God. Sometimes words mean what they mean.
Framing document? I don't seem to remember that Deist teminology in the Constitution...
It's not. It's in the Declaration of Independence. And about a thousand other documents of the age. By the way, I don't recall any mention of forbidding Christianity in the Constitution either.
Odin.
If that's what you want to call Him.
Be better if the people asked to do a job followed the *Consitituion,*
You mean like that part about "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF"?
One wonders, then, why the legal system in this country is based on that of the pagan Saxons and not on the Ten Commandments, then.
Our legal system is based on English common law, which owes much to Roman law, which was spread to northern Europe by ... Christians! You know, those Christians that are part of the Holy Roman Empire? The Empire that DEFINED Western culture? Yeah, that one.
>> What... a desire to "stick it" to Commies?
> No, an expression of our trust in God.
ERRR. The "In God We Trust" bit came about in the 1950's as, officially, a poorly-conceived thumb in the eye to Commies (in reality, just the usual sort of pander one comes to expect from politicians). It replaced the much more accurate and magnificent E Pluribus Unum.
>> Framing document? I don't seem to remember that Deist teminology in the Constitution...
> It's not. It's in the Declaration of Independence.
The DoI is not a "framing document" for the US. That would be the Constitution.
>By the way, I don't recall any mention of forbidding Christianity in the Constitution either.
By the way, I don't recall any mention of forbidding Wicca in the Constitution either.
> Our legal system is based on English common law
Which was derived from *Saxon* common law. Roman law formed the backbone of French Napoleonic Code, buit not English or American law (outside Louisiana, which still uses the Napoleonic Code). You're not French, are you?
> The Empire that DEFINED Western culture?
That would be the *Roman* empire, with a lot of help from the Greeks, Scandihoovians and Germans. Buncha pagans.