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Originally posted by Nitro
If you were required to make a refference to god then it would clearly be promoting a specific religion, wouldn't it ?
"so help me God" and the like must be optional. Why should muslims or atheists have to take an oath to God. It wouldn't mean anything and would only offend.
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Wrong because America was founded as a Theist nation, not claiming feality(sp?) to any one particular God...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.