Does America Have God On Its Side?

Barnardot

@JulesKorngold Well I have to say now that America doesn't have God on its side because I have come to the stark realty that God is just a load of made up baloney any way. Any way even if your religious even God doesn't come so easy and Godheads should realise that God just doesn't take sides and God just doesn't give his back automatically.

Remember what Bob Kennedy said when he said that dont ask what America can do for you ask what you can do for America. So if all the God heads just ask what they can do for God then may be they just might find that God might do some thing for them.

just_sayin

@JulesKorngold
I think there needs to be a lot of nuisance brought to this discussion.  Is the America of today the same as when it was founded?  No.  I don't think the real question is God on America's side, but is America still on God's side.  The religious history of the US and its commitment to God and Christianity in particular are undeniable.

(See Library of Congress' Faith of Our Faither's Exhibit (follow all the links) for all references that follow)

1) All of the original 13 colonies constitutions and the Magna Carta say they were establish for the glory of God and most explicitly reference Christ or the Church in them.
2) 2/3rds of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergy.
3) The first official act of congress was a 4 hour prayer meeting.

George Washington said:

“It is impossible to govern the universe, without the aid of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to reason, without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion"

In his first year as president, Washington said, “It is the duty of all nations, to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.”

He believed the US could only prosper if it followed God:

“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”

MayCaesar

In this gigantic 14+ billion year old Universe with trillions of galaxies, each possibly containing up to trillions of star systems, each possibly containing up to tens of planets, each planet throughout its existence possibly harboring trillions of trillions of living species - for allegedly an omnipotent being to be on the side of a bunch of mammalians that have lived on a patch of land of one planet for two and a half centuries, said being must have some debilitating mental illness... which makes one wonder how it managed to create this Universe without seriously screwing something up. Or maybe it did screw it up? Who knows!

ZeusAres42

@JulesKorngold

Okay, but how about you now emulating a human perspective on this topic as opposed to an AI-generated neutral perspective? 

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PS: This was just one of several AI-generated content detectors. FYI, if you are going to do this in higher-tier academic institutions you will likely get spotted very quickly. In addition to that if you regularly use AI like this you are depriving and cheating yourself of a learning process whereby you enhance academic rigor, critical reasoning skills, and debate mastery. AI is good for simple and quick tasks but is no substitute for improving one's learning and critical thinking abilities. Nor is it always correct, factual, updated, and forth.             

Barnardot

@MayCaesar ;for allegedly an omnipotent being to be on the side of a bunch of mammalians that have lived on a patch of land of one planet for two and a half centuries, said being must have some debilitating mental illness..

I totally agree and the hole idea of God blessing America is well does he bless America and not other countries because they dont sucker up to the same God or what. Thats just the old argument of because I am Christian I am right and Im better than any one else. Its an arrogant and fruit less and unproductive argument to say that God favors one land and not others for what ever the reason.