Every POTUS since FDR has had a prayer at their inauguration, so what? I'm an atheist but I don't find anything wrong with it. If people want to pray then let them.
I turned on the inauguration expecting to only get nauseated, but instead almost have a seizure and a heart attack. Why the **** do we allow this nonsense to be on an inauguration in 2017? This is a very, very ominous sign for our country over the next administration.
I turned on the inauguration expecting to only get nauseated, but instead almost have a seizure and a heart attack. Why the **** do we allow this nonsense to be on an inauguration in 2017? This is a very, very ominous sign for our country over the next administration.
Dramatic much? :violin
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.
I turned on the inauguration expecting to only get nauseated, but instead almost have a seizure and a heart attack. Why the **** do we allow this nonsense to be on an inauguration in 2017? This is a very, very ominous sign for our country over the next administration.
The establishment and separation of church and state clauses do have a problem with it.
I turned on the inauguration expecting to only get nauseated, but instead almost have a seizure and a heart attack. Why the **** do we allow this nonsense to be on an inauguration in 2017? This is a very, very ominous sign for our country over the next administration.
The establishment and separation of church and state clauses do have a problem with it.
Aside from a letter written by Jefferson, there is no separation of church and state. And there is no clause addressing the issue.
the purpose of the First Amendment (among other purposes) was to prevent what was prevalent in Europe. By law the Monarch of England was the head of the Church of England and many other nations, the monarch had to be Roman Catholic. While many of our founders were members of the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian) there were others who were of other Protestant denominations and there was a desire to not have an official church of the government.
Aside from a letter written by Jefferson, there is no separation of church and state. And there is no clause addressing the issue.
I don't care about that. Where I start to have a problem is when people run for office stating, "I'm a <insert religion here> first." Both Cruz and Pence did that repeatedly. If a Muslim did it, the right would explode.
I turned on the inauguration expecting to only get nauseated, but instead almost have a seizure and a heart attack. Why the **** do we allow this nonsense to be on an inauguration in 2017? This is a very, very ominous sign for our country over the next administration.
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