Liberal Atheists are at it again.

[Mountain Man]

So - when does any god other than the Christian god get assigned the proper noun? - apart from when it is the first word in a sentence, that is.

I don't know, but knowing the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, there's no reasonable argument to be made that the Declaration of Independence is referring to anybody but the Christian God.

[tabibito]

Agreed.

[Tassman]

I don't know, but knowing the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, there's no reasonable argument to be made that the Declaration of Independence is referring to anybody but the Christian God.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossex...an-document-2/

This would explain why there is no reference to God or Jesus in the Constitution itself.

[Roy]

So - when does any god other than the Christian god get assigned the proper noun? - apart from when it is the first word in a sentence, that is.

Whenever a Jew or Muslim mentions their deity when writing in English.

[Cerebrum123]

Whenever a Jew or Muslim mentions their deity when writing in English.

In most cases of English usage Jews would use "G-d*", and Muslims would use "Allah".

*Or perhaps Adonai.

[Mountain Man]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossex...an-document-2/

This would explain why there is no reference to God or Jesus in the Constitution itself.

A very selective reading.

Source: The Federalist Papers

http://thefederalistpapers.org/curre...of-natures-god

© Copyright Original Source

And the role of the Creator is, in fact, fundamental to the notion of self-governance based on the principle that "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." Without these unalienable rights, the only rule is "survival of the fittest", and there's no basis on which to create a self-governed society.

But I do like how the Patheos article skips right over the first two sentences of the Declaration of Independence which lay the foundation for everything that follows, and then the author deceptively leaves off the first five-words from part he does quote. Here's how the third sentence of the Declaration of Independence starts, with the words the Patheos author "forgot" to include underlined: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." In other words, if we have no God given rights then there's nothing for us to secure through the institution of government.

[Cow Poke]

A very selective reading.

Source: The Federalist Papers

http://thefederalistpapers.org/curre...of-natures-god

© Copyright Original Source

And the role of the Creator is, in fact, fundamental to the notion of self-governance based on the principle that "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." Without these unalienable rights, the only rule is "survival of the fittest", and there's no basis on which to create a self-governed society.

But I do like how the Patheos article skips right over the first two sentences of the Declaration of Independence which lay the foundation for everything that follows, and then the author deceptively leaves off the first five-words from part he does quote. Here's how the third sentence of the Declaration of Independence starts, with the words the Patheos author "forgot" to include underlined: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." In other words, if we have no God given rights then there's nothing for us to secure through the institution of government.

But but but... he wants SO BADLY to believe otherwise.

[One Bad Pig]

In most cases of English usage Jews would use "G-d*", and Muslims would use "Allah".

*Or perhaps Adonai.

My Stone Tanakh uses Hashem.