Saturday, November 05, 2011

America's Judeo/Christian traditions reaffirmed

If you don't know where you are coming from, you probably don't know where you are going either -- and America's origins were Christian.
The House on Tuesday passed a non-binding resolution reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto.

The measure sponsored by Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., supports and encourages the motto's display in all public schools and government buildings. It was approved 396-9, with 2 abstentions.

Forbes said the resolution was needed because President Obama had once called "E pluribus unum" the national motto, and the Latin phrase meaning "from many one" was engraved in the new Capitol Visitors Center until Congress ordered that it be corrected.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the resolution a meaningless distraction from the nation's real problems. "Nobody is threatening the national motto," he said.

President Obama responded Wednesday by trying to shame the Republican-controlled House by accusing its leaders of wasting time during a jobs crisis with debates over commemorative baseball coins and reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the country's motto.

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Christians take a bit of a battering in the USA these days so this may encourage more outreach from them and delay the delegitimization of them that seems to be in train

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny, the man who plays golf so much and takes quite a few vacations says the Congress has better things to do?

Anonymous said...

Think back to the reason the motto was adopted in the first place, at a time when the communist governments were declaiming an end to religion within their own borders our Congress decided to affirm the place of religion in our society.

Fast forward to today when those communist experiments were shown to be equal parts unrealistic optimism and unrestrained oppression and you see that it is still the same kind of people who ran those failed experiments who are trying to run them again in our country.

Anonymous said...

Even if it is a waste of time, anything Congress does that delays spending billions of dollars on more ineffective jobs programs is a plus in my book.

Anonymous said...

A message to the sheep;

“Do you ever get the feeling America’s mounting problems are too grave to have happened by accident? You’re far from alone. America is under siege as radicals determined to pulverize the U.S. Constitution deliberately bankrupt the nation, destroy the electoral system, and drive the economy into the ground.

How do you destroy a great nation? Sap its citizens’ self-respect and encourage civil unrest. It’s no coincidence that the welfare rolls are exploding everywhere and there’s no end in sight. An appalling 1 in 7 Americans now receives food stamps and there are 70 bloated federal welfare programs. The failed War on Poverty that started in President Lyndon Johnson’s time has cost taxpayers a staggering $16 trillion – and President Obama, who killed the welfare reforms of the 1990s, wants to spend $10 trillion more! To help distribute the wealth even more, radicals handcuffed banks and forced them to give mortgages to people on welfare who had no chance of paying it back. This isn’t so-called social justice: it’s slow-motion national suicide..." --- Matthew Vadum

Anonymous said...

Obama couldn't even take the time to call Tony LaRussa and congratulate the Cardinals on winning the World Series. I suppose they don't have enough African-Americans on the team.

Anonymous said...

That's because he is too busy playing golf and blaming other people for his failures.

Anonymous said...

Think for yourself. Don’t accept anything at face value. Always ask questions.

Atheism = Indoctrination Failure

Anonymous said...

"A message to the sheep;"

Which sheep? The ones that blindly follow the conservative message or the ones that blindly follow the liberal message?

Two sides of the same coin.

Anonymous said...

You know when a country or society is failing when it is more concerned with such irrelevant issues as national mottos, flags and pledges, or "gay marriage", or "creationism in schools", etc., etc, - at the same time that its national economy is in real crisis - it's called the "Titanic deckchairs syndrome"!!

sig said...

'Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the resolution a meaningless distraction from the nation's real problems. "Nobody is threatening the national motto," he said.'

He just doesn't get it, and THAT's the real problem. It's not the national motto that's being threatened, but the Judeo/Christian foundations upon which this country was founded.

But want REALLY amazes me is that ANY House vote today could have such a clear bi-partisan result at 396-9.

Anonymous said...

Kee Bird : are you implying that Christians were persecuted in England, or do you mean certain sects of Christians?
By the way, try not to "persecute" the language which also came from England!