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To: mojito

All mentioned before: The Supreme Court has Moses and the tablets on its façade. The House and Senate have paid chaplains, and as already noted, “In God We Trust” is on our currency. Hypocrisy abounds.


34 posted on 06/30/2015 1:07:37 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: donaldo

More hypocrisy would include military chaplains. Many talk about a complete separation of church of state in US. This is nonsense. Presidential oath: While the words “So Help Me God” are not specifically required by Article Two, Section One, Clause Eight of the Constitution the first Congress explicitly prescribed the phrase “So help me God” in oaths under the Judiciary Act of 1789 for all U.S. judges and officers other than the President. It was prescribed even earlier under the various first state constitutions as well as by the Second Continental Congress in 1776. Although the phrase is mandatory in these oaths, the said Act also allows for the option that the phrase be omitted by the officer, in which case it would be called an affirmation instead of an oath: “Which words, so help me God, shall be omitted in all cases where an affirmation is admitted instead of an oath.” In contrast, the oath of the President is the only oath specified in the Constitution. It does not include the closing phrase “So help me God”, and it also allows for the optional form of an affirmation which is not considered an oath. In practice, however, most Presidents, at least during the last century, have opted to take the oath (rather than an affirmation), to use a Bible to do so, and also to close the oath with the customary phrase. Also note the use of the word Creator (capitalized) in the Declaration of Independence and the idea that our rights are unalienable and from that Creator. Our rights are from God, not bestowed by a beneficent government that we should bow down to. Hardly a separation of church and state. No matter, the assault on the Christian religion increases apace. Not Islam mind you, but Christianity. And the whole point of the first amendment was about disestablishment. Prior to the Bill of Rights most states had established churches.


37 posted on 06/30/2015 1:38:00 PM PDT by donaldo
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