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Of course not, that is dangerous; separation of church and state. Initial settlers were the majority Puritans fleeing religious persecution from theocracy state

by mgh2 5y ago

Of course not, that is dangerous; separation of church and state. Initial settlers were the majority Puritans fleeing religious persecution from theocracy states, might as well represent them.

krapp 5y ago
>Initial settlers were the majority Puritans fleeing religious persecution from theocracy states, might as well represent them. They are represented, like everyone else, by their representatives in government. I would even argue they're over-represented, with rural voters (who tend to skew religious) having outsized influence over urban voters, despite the latter being the majority of the population. We don't also need to have schoolchildren invoke the name of their God in a loyalty oath to the state every day. That isn't representation, it's indoctrination, normalizing the premise that Christians enjoy a special status in American society that everyone needs to acknowledge.
- mgh2 5y ago
  What about "in God we trust" in the dollar bill?
  - jleyank 5y ago
    That’s changeable, and I assume they’re not reading the money before it’s used…
  - mbg721 5y ago
    My grade-school-level history understanding was that both this and "under God" in the pledge were the results of a misprioritized social reaction to the military threat posed by Russia.