Has Obama let you down?%26quot;The US is not a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation we are just citizens%26quot; is this change?when all the christians can get together and elect a bumbling idiot like Bush to the highest office in the land, then it is a christian nation. like it or not.
%26quot;The US is not a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation we are just citizens%26quot; is this change?
It's not change because the U.S. has never been a Christian nation. I'm glad Obama said it.
%26quot;The US is not a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation we are just citizens%26quot; is this change?
wtf lol
the christians took over...the nation was intended as secular
what does this have to do with Obama?
No that is a statement of reality.
Certainly not since our constitution was adopted.
I didn't feel a boost with my tax return... where's the stimulation?
ahhhhhhhh I'm so glad I'm Canadian.
*rolls eyes*
Obama is right. were not a christian nation. sure christianity is the majority but that doesnt mean that christianity is the national religon seeing we have %26quot;FREEDOM OF RELIGION%26quot;
The US has always been a secular nation with a majority of Christians.
This is nothing new.
It's not a change unless you hadn't ever bothered to read the U.S. Constitution and the accompanying Bill of Rights (aka the first ten amendments). Did you flunk political science and history in school?
No it's not change, it's been true for around 200 or so years since this nation was founded.....
No. Obama hasn't let me down with that. He's acknowledging the simple reality of what this country is. The minute you say, %26quot;This is a Christian nation,%26quot; you make the rest of us second class citizens that you are just putting up with. Nevermind that many of us were born here, raised here, educated here, defended this country, and made significant contributions to our communities.
We are not a Christian nation. We are all Americans who happen to be Christians, atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, Taoists, Hindus, etc.
Nope. Obama has the guts to say what the Constitution and the Treaty of Tripoli has said for 200+ years now.
I am very glad he got around to saying that, guess what? We're not all Christian or Muslim or Jewish. - COEXIST
The correct quote is:
%26quot;Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.%26quot;
- Barack Obama
No, our president has not let me down at all. I am proud that we elected an intelligent man for a change.
There is only one group that are gonna feel like losers and I am glad.
I didnt vote for Obama, but I agree with that statement
%26quot;As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;%26quot;
From the Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously approved by the Senate and signed by John Adams in 1797.
the united states was never centered around one religion....that's why the constitution gives us all the freedom to choose our own faith.
Obama hasn't changed a damn thing...he's just shuffled things around to give off the appearance of change.
Obama is going to take us places where even angels fear to tread . But the wise knew this BEFORE he became president .
Obama is my hero.
The %26quot;change%26quot; is that people in power are beginning to recognize that fact.
its a stolen and murdered indian nation? your christian or already dead .
Unfortunately, He is doing exactly what I believed he would do when
he was running for office. That is why I did more in this election to
have a candidate elected than I ever have. I did not want Mr. Obama,
and I cried the night he won.
I knew anyone who associated with as many criminals, and in fact
lived in the little block with them, and was a liberal as he was would
be trouble for our nation, as if we didn't have enough.
He has a Socialist leaning and I am afraid that is where he hopes to
take our nation. But people were so in awe of him, they couldn't
seem to see. Like they were mesmerized by him. People did want
change but %26quot;jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is change,
but I don't want it. If people could take their blinders off long enough
to see Mr. Obama as he really is, they would realize he is not for
what is good for our nation's people.
Well what is a christian? Many people call themselves this just because they live in the USA and believe there's a higher power. The devil believes in God and trembles.
It is change and it could not have come at a worse time. I don't think Obama said anything about not being a Muslim nation. There are many citizens who fear Obama is preparing to make us a Muslim nation.
Do you remember exactly when the economy began to go down the drain? If I am not mistaken, our economy was doing fine until anti-war groups began to make %26quot;America Hates God%26quot; posters.
America needs God and all men, women, and children who hate him needs to change their minds, and love and accept him and his son, Jesus Christ.
It is Judeo-Christian. Obama and McCain wore a kippa in Israel.
Supreme Court determined that the United States was a Christian nation in the 1892 case, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 226 (1892).
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Justice Brewer then recounted the central role played by faith in the history of America:
the commission to Christopher Columbus (%26quot;Ferdinand and Isabella, by the grace of God, King and Queen of Castile ... it is hoped that by God's assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered ....%26quot;)
the first colonial grant to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 (from %26quot;Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, Fraunce and Ireland, queen, defender of the faith%26quot; authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided that %26quot;they be not against the true Christian faith now professed in the Church of England%26quot;)
the colonial charters to the fundamental orders of Connecticut (%26quot;Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Allmighty God by the wise disposition of his diuyne prudence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and vapor the River of Conectecotte and the Lands thereunto adioyneing; And well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Gouerment established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; doe therefore associate and conioyne our soleus to be as one Publike State or Comonwelth; and doe, for our soleus and our Successors and such as shall be adjoined to vs at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and pressure the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said gospel is now practised amongst vs.%26quot;)
the Declaration of Independence (%26quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.%26quot;)
the State Constitutions (Illinois, 1870: %26quot;We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations ....%26quot;)
the familiar requirement that all officers shall take an oath ending in %26quot;so help me God.%26quot;
Justice Brewer, writing for the Court, stated that:
%26quot;Even the Constitution of the United States, which is supposed to have little touch upon the private life of the individual, contains in the First Amendment a declaration common to the constitutions of all the States, as follows: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' etc. And also provides in Article 1, section 7, (a provision common to many constitutions,) that the Executive shall have ten days (Sundays excepted) within which to determine whether he will approve or veto a bill.
The Court concluded:
%26quot;There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people.%26quot;
The US is a Christian nation. 70% of Americans are Christian.
Has Obama let me down? No I expected a mediocre president and that is what we got. I expect it to get worse as we go.
