Atheists, you can’t erase God from the public square, you don’t have enough votes yet. When you do, then you can start tearing it all down. You can knock down the Washington monument with it’s Laus Deo inscription, tear down the walls of the south and north chambers of the Lincoln monument which reads “this nation, under God” (from his Gettysburg Address) on one wall and one the other multiple references to God’s will concerning slavery, you can tear down the entrances to the National Archives, the Ronald Regan building and the wall above the Supreme Court bench, the door to the Supreme Court and the entrance to the Supreme court (heck, you might was well tear the whole thing down) with their references to the Ten Commandments, and you can burn all the money with it’s “In God we trust.” Go ahead, tear down all the monuments that reference God. You’ll certainly denude the nations capital.

The nation’s largest group of atheists and agnostics filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to stop the engraving of “In God We Trust” and the “one nation under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance in the new Capitol Visitor Center.
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“We are effectively being told that we are political outsiders … because we don’t trust in God,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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“They wanted this up there because they think God is the foundation of our government,” Gaylor said. “Boy, are they misinformed.”

The reason that the atheists can get away with saying things like this is that the public is misinformed about the founding fathers.
We can argue all day whether this country was founded as a Christian nation and whether the founders where Christians. What can’t be argued is the fact that many of them believed in God including Jefferson, Franklin and Washington (who was an Anglican). It wasn’t their intention to keep God out of the public square, just not fund any religious group with public funds (the way the Anglican church was funded in England). It’s clear from their writings that they didn’t intend this to be an atheist nation.
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BTW, I could care less if the visitor center mentions God or not. It’s clear from the way this nation acts that we really aren’t a nation that is ruled by God, why be hypocrites about it?

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