Katherine: Conservative in Training

In God We Trust

My name is Katherine and I am a 14 year old girl writing a blog for the first time. I have decided to talk about Michael Newdow’s latest lawsuit to take the phrase “In God We Trust” off of the nation’s currency.

The fact that Newdow does not seem to get is that most of our Founding Fathers were Christians and held a strong Christian worldview. The most famous line of our Declaration is as follows:

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.

The Creator our founding fathers believed in, and trusted, in just happens to be the Christian God.

In fact, many of our Founding Fathers had been ministers or at least had studied theology. Abraham Baldwin (Georgia) had been a minister, along with Hugh Williamson (North Carolina), James Madison (Virginia), and Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut). Many more Founding Fathers had also studied theology and had not been ordained.

So, most of the Founding Fathers had been Christian, but what does that have to do with anything? Well, if the men who had signed the Declaration and Constitution were Christian, then these documents we use as a founding for all of America’s laws were based on Christian principles. The Founding Fathers did put trust in the Christian God. Therefore, the phrase “In God We Trust” on America’s currency is perfectly acceptable.

Newdow says that he “… just wants the government to say that we don’t have an opinion on religion. American citizens do what they want.”  Being a lawyer, he should be the first to know that the government does, in fact, have an opinion on religion. The government has intervened in religious practices from time to time, often with great restraint, when deciding when it is in the public’s best interest to intervene.

When Utah was becoming a state, one of the requirements that the government gave them was that they had to have a law prohibiting polygamy. Utah, as most know, is a Mormon state and polygamy used to be a major part of the Mormon religion. Joseph Smith, the man who started Mormonism, had 34 wives. Thus the government does have an opinion on religion and will not say what Newdow wants them to say.

Newdow also states that he would fight just as much if the government had said that there is no god. Why would he fight it, if it is his own belief? He would back that statement up with his own assumptions and his own lies. That’s what this lawsuit is: a pack of lies.

1. Great job Katherine!

   It’s great to see more young conservatives blogging.  I am myself a 15 year old conservative blogger.

   If you need anything, feel free to holler: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

   Posted by Conservative Schooler  on  11/28  at  07:43 PM
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