I discusssed (at length
) the motto of the US, “In God We Trust” and the addition of “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance in an earlier post. Those are scary, but the Christian Amendment to the Preamble of the US Constitution, first proposed in the 1860s by the National Reform Association is even scarier (the amended text is bolded):
We, the People of the United States recognizing the being and attributes of Almighty God, the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior and Lord of all, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America