Originally posted by KingCobra@Mar 5 2003, 12:31 PM
Where does it stop? Look at the USA coins, bills, court rooms. The quote "In GOD We Trust" is everywhere. Why not cancel Christmas as a national holiday, after all it's the birth of Jesus. I think things should be left the way they are and our government should worry about other things.
I do believe in GOD and I say that NOT trying to offend anyone. People are free to believe and do what they want. There is currently no way that anyone can prove to another person that GOD is real. It's very simple and no amount of fighting will prove either way.
Oh for God sakes.
Christmas is NOT the birth of Jesus. The church says it is because they wanted to sanctify a secular holiday as being "Holy". Anybody that knows their Bible stuff will tell you Jesus was NOT born on Christmas.
As for the "In God we Trust"? I do believe in a higher power, BUT whose right is it that we demand they be there? It has no reason for being on the money. There is no seperation of church and state because we left it slide for so long BUT there is SUPPOSED to be seperation of church and state. So is saying that there is no real seperation of church and state a reasonable excuse to demand that everybody pray in school or force athiests or jews to claim something that they don't believe in or to force it on money? Because YOU believe in it? HOW SELFISH! That's like forcing a non-smoker to sit in the smoking section of a crowded resturant because YOU deem it the right and correct thing!!
I SAY NOT! It's wrong! You're forcing a belief system on somebody and that is what is wrong with Christianity today AND in the past. "If somebody doesn't believe in Christ, force it on them!" That is so WRONG especially for a country that belives in F R E E D O M. I say, if you want to do it, fine, but don't force everybody to do it. God has NOTHING to do with the political or financial position of the US and if it does, then why is the US in such a deficit??
PS: Don't plan on preaching to me because I am an ex-"born again". I've "been there done that". I know all the lines and I feel much better with myself in the beliefs I have come to by searching my feelings. Above is what I have come to with much soul searching. Take it or leave it, but it's my opinion. Does it make me unpatriotic?