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Originally posted by guthmund
In God we Trust and such means nothing to me.
It's just another catchphrase of the month like "Let's Roll" and "Bling Bling." and almost as ridiculous.
Our nation has never had true seperation of church and state and I don't think it ever will and any argument to fully segregate the two is folly. While it's not as fanatical a melding as other religious states, church and state have melded none the less.
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I don't think it is comparable to "bling bling" and "Let's Roll", although I see what you are getting at. God is much deeper than any popular catchphrase.
An interesting addition to all of this is that I was listening to a radio show on CBC Radio One last night and it featured a guy who was looking at the myth that Canadians and American's are becoming more alike. One of the statistics showed that over the past (I think) 30 years there has been a decline in those who say they are Religious in Canada while the exact opposite is true in the US. At the beginning of the period the US and Canada were about the same percentage.
Perhaps this is why I, as a Canadian, feel the disconnect when I see the precense of God in the US political sphere.