[ The U.S. Constitution has NO mention of a god other than the then standard method of dating a document using the term “in the year of our lord.” This appears once in Article 6 of the Constitution]
So...this issue has recently been turned up in far-right/Christian nationalist circles and in government where such people achieve power, on the state level or, on Boards of Education (over 12,000 separate ones it seems around the U.S.). I couldn't get into the article as it returned an error on my email. So...the actual excuse given by, for example, the head of the Oklahoma State Education dept for putting up the "10 Commandments" in every school room, is that the 10 Commandments were part "of the history of the Founding Fathers". This is a *different* issue stemming from the same conspiracy to impose some kind of "Christianity" on the U.S. In fact the issue a god appearing in the U.S. Constitution is wholly irrelevant as it is clearly a production of the Enlightenment (slavery notwithstanding). The term "creator" does appear in the Deceleration of Independence, a document that is an aspirational one and has no legal standing, either in British or U.S. law. It was, at best, a polemic. While the U.S. Constitution is as most agree, secular, ALL State Constitutions are do in fact mention God, at least once. One, I think S. Carolina, has an Article that stipulates one has to believe in a "Creator" to serve in the state legislature (in violation of the "No religious test to hold office" of the U.S. Constitution So, anyway, the Far-Right (most of the advisors for Trump so if he wins expect to see a lot more movement in this direction) is pushing this faux-historical excuse to impose Christianity on school kids. You will see a lot more of this. It is a "faux" historical belief based on what are essentially lies about the Founding Fathers, most of whom were ardent secularists, atheists, deists, and non-Christians, certainly anti-Fundamentalists. The 10 Commandments (since there is no one version of this and the King James Bible restates it, differently, 3 times in the same book to say nothing ), have little real bearing on the writers of the Constitution. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32040): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32040 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108295598/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
