(October 3, 2016 at 3:15 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I guess the real question is, what does Drich mean by 'formal declaration'?
Anyone can declare they're a member of any religion or not (although, being an avowed Muslim or atheist is political suicide). That was Ben Carson's and Ted Cruz's political strategy - cozy up to evangelicals.
What can't happen is any formal - as in governmental - declaration of allegiance to any particular god, even something as broad as the Judeo-Christian god. This is a secular nation. Always has been.
proof? It would seem to me the bill of rights says otherwise. As a secular nation would declare it's intention to refrain from anything religious, yet the congress still opens with a long standing tradition of prayer. That the capitol building was used as a church for almost 100 years also speaks contary, the fact that congress sought and offically had a specific version of the bible to be printed and distributed in schools all point to the lie that this country was founded as a secular nation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGH-6adzue0
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