Conservative Ally

There is an atheist group that has filed a lawsuit to remove the prayer and the phrase, “So help me God,” from Obama’s inauguration.

First of all, thank God that we all live in America where such a discussion can even take place. In America we have the freedom to believe or not believe in any religion we please. Our Founding Fathers came here to escape being persecuted because of their religious beliefs.

Second of all, the first amendment means that the Government can not announce an official national church or religion. “…It doesn’t mean that public ceremonies can not include prayers or acknowledgment of the existence of God. The atheists, while they have every right to practice their atheism, they do not have an absolute right not to be exposed to viewpoints they don’t agree with. So I think this lawsuit has no merit whatsoever,” said Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council.(foxnews.com)

I guess we will see what happens. It will be a shame to take God away from the people of a nation where the majority of people believe in God.

“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
Daniel Webster

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
Patrick Henry

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