This is a real poster. I did not make this one up. In fact, this is one of many posters about belief in God and being American. What do you think? Does American = belief in God?
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My name is Vince and I live in Colorado. When I drink coffee a brown ring forms on my bottom lip. A similar ring forms on the mug. It's worth the hassle. I love my wife more today than yesterday and our kids are growing on us. I am a church planter with Acts 29 and I am in the process of planting The Town Church.
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the answer is "yes!" belief in god is foundational to americanism. and this is precisely the problem. belief in what god? the god of the idealistic puritan ushering in the kingdom with his "city on a hill"? or is it the clock-maker god of the deists? or is it the one true god of the unitarian? or is it the god of the scottish common sense realist? or is it the god of Locke and the social contract theorists?
I'm most concerned about the fact that the woman on the poster appears to me doing some sort of breast exam.
johnny5 - what?
lyndsay - i hadn't noticed that, but you are right. that's odd. you can't take god out of the schools but you can do that in public schools? what's the matter with our country?
while working on my thesis, i'm prone to occassional theological brain farts. sometimes i even have to check my underpants.
America = Belief in God? Probably not the right wording but if we take away our Judeo-Christian values or the God that underpins that, we fail. This is why (and I'm not an anti-war guy) our many wars in countries that do not have this ultimately fail to make a long-term difference.
Okay, maybe we have to be believe in God to be American, but do we also have to dress like this? I mean that kid must get his theistic American ass kicked all the time!
how do we defend believing the idea that we must believe in God to be American? maybe some of you are joking but how do we defend that argument?
i think it's indefensible--especially if one interprets belief in god according to modern evangelical standards. the point of my first comment is that, taken as a whole, the god of our fathers ends up being no god at all (at least at a federal level; there's more explicitely christian jargon at the state level in early american documents). about all you can say is that, in its beginnings, americanism presupposed a belief in a higher power. and that higher power--though often ripped of its orthodox trinitarianism--is rooted in christianity.
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