Did God Touch 50 States and Not the Nation?

By Thomas D. Segel on (Apr 10, 09)


I really don’t know how the leader of our country could voice such words. According to Barack Obama the United States of America is not a Christian nation. Instead, it is only a nation of citizens. Well, perhaps he can split a hair or two and insist his view is correct, because not all people who embrace our God wear the Christian mantle. We also have faithful Jewish brethren who worship the same Almighty Creator.


Since Obama seems to have labeled himself the President of Secular America, I guess he has also decided all of the congregations of all the churches and temples are citizens of some other place on earth.



In his short tenure as the CEO of America, Barack Obama has managed to place himself in opposition to just about everything people of faith endorse politically. But, nothing has offended more Americans than when he stood in front of a foreign audience and proclaimed this land was not a Christian nation.



It is understood that Washington D.C. is close to being Godless. It has drawn secularists from every corner of the county into its fold. It is understood that the ACLU, which haunts Washington, is Godless and has spend decades in litigation fighting to remove God from public view. But how can anyone claim our nation to be devoid of God? Mr. Obama, your Ivy League education left a huge historical vacancy sign in the middle of your memory bank.



You and your friends on the left may be able to argue the point the framers of our Constitution did not include the word “God” in that historic document. You can even extend that argument to include that because God is not mentioned, those who wrote the Constitution envisioned a secular nation. However, you are wrong on both counts.



According to David New, writing in The Covenant News, the very society of the day when the Constitution was written believed that the only possible explanation for the existence of the universe was special creation. He says, “All the delegates at the Philadelphia convention were creationist. This is the reason the framers did not create a secular state in the modern sense of the term. Indeed the concept of “secularism” as it is used today didn’t even exist in 1787. It is largely a twentieth century concept.”



Taking the argument a step further, one must remember we are a nation of 50 individual states. Again, according to New, “Generally the word God will appear in two places in most Constitutions. The first place is the preamble to the constitution. The second place is in the religion clauses of the bill of rights. For example, the word “God” appears in the preamble of eight state constitutions. In four states “Supreme Ruler of the Universe” is used instead. By far, the most popular reference in the preamble is “Almighty God”. This appears in the preamble of 30 state constitutions. There is only state constitution, which has a preamble that does not have a divine reference of any kind. This is the Constitution of Oregon. But here the words “Almighty God” appear in the state religion clauses.”



All 50 states express their faith in God through a wide variety of constitutional statements. In Virginia the words read, “We reaffirm our faith and constant reliance upon God.” In Wyoming they say, “Grateful to God for our civil, political and religious liberties.” In Utah the words are “Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty.” In Texas we say, “We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging with gratitude and beneficence of God”.



Of all the lands in this nation there is only one spot that does not have a constitution that embraces God. That bit of real estate is a place called Washington D.C. Since this is the current home of President Obama, perhaps that is the reason he seems to believe that we are not “One nation, under God.” The remaining fifty states take exception to his denial.