Will the damage of infusing religion into our government and policy ever be undone? With my understanding of our founding fathers, what they represented, and the people of the time, what has happened in this country in the 2nd half of its history spits in the very face of the men that provided the wonderful (but oft bastardized) framework for which this nation is built upon.

It has gone on for so long that entire generations of people have grown up believing that the United States is a Christian nation, that the Pledge is supposed to say 'one nation under God', and that 'In God We Trust' has always been prevalent. In fact, people are so indoctrinated into this that they consistently use one misplaced example to support another in arguments when you try to point out that the US is in fact absolutely NOT a Christian nation.

The reality is that the US is getting slowly better on this front, but I do not believe the illness will ever be completely cured as it has seeped way too deep into every crack. The unfortunate truth is that this infusion of religion has influenced policy that has held back on medical and scientific advances, climate, assisted in entering us into conflicts, and has led us down a patch of such willful and blinding ignorance that it has quite literally resulted in millions of lives being needlessly loss either directly or indirectly from the trickle down.

Here is some back ground reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

Red Scare

The Pledge


It is worthy of note that the current holder of the best country to live in for the entire world has a population where the majority is Atheist and Agnostic.



Edited: 04/19/2017 at 05:14 AM by miker