God and the Oath of Office

You know, I think it should be up to each president. It's THEIR swearing in, so let them each one do what s/he wants.

The article states that Christian ministers are problematic for this inauguration because "Today, the greatest threats to our safety come not from godless communists but from religious fundamentalists abroad." Oh, I was under the impression that those "religious fundamentalists abroad" were Muslim. Are there fundamentalist Christians abroad who are promoting terrorism toward this country?

In my opinion the theist???s god is concerned with fates & actions of human being which seems to come out of the mind of man...nature or nurture? I have watched this country over the last 28 years be ripped apart by evangelical thinking. I have watched a government falsely claim piety just to make the people follow them (W???s base 25%>). When I read of America???s history I read about the collective body of intelligence that did not want religion in the new government. The founding fathers and mothers came from Europe and England and they knew first hand what it was about having to contend with magic and superstition in the kingdoms??? England, Rome, France.
It???s time we moved on as humans and leave the magical thinking and superstitions behind. We have a lot of work to do. Thomas Jefferson???s deist god would agree.

If only the author had a grasp on the true heritage of these United States of America (evident in the original documents and correspondence of the founders and presidents), she would be honest and acknowledge the importance of Christianity at the birth of the nation, both at its conception as well as in its infancy (as did even the deist, Thomas Jefferson). In my opinion, the "fervent religiosity" of the early-mid 1900's was a resurgent realization of this truth at a time when the country was moved to refocus to our roots in troubled times, as well as a response to the degeneration of "separation of church and state" which had been morphing for 100 years into the bass-ackward interpretation that is running amock today in our nation's judiciary.

. How do we know that everyone attending the inauguration believe in the same christian God that we using to pray at the inauguration. We are not there to convert anyone but to celebrate this occasion. And Mr. Obama should abstain from using "So help me God" quotation, which has nothing to do with his daily dealings with governmental issues. If he fails as a president, we obviously going to blame it on him not on God.

Why don't we have them say " so help me Santa Claus" or so help me Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) or so help me tooth fairy? They all have as much reality about tham as god does.

It is time we stopped wasting precious resources on worshipping something that doesn't exist. It is non productive and silly. We could just as easily worship trees or thunder or clouds or fire, right?

Speaking in tongues...speaking in different languages as in Mother Tongue.

It would appear that one Starman is simply saying 'Religion is business as usual' which should submit to the regulations of businesses as usual. Tax the businesses of these god-experts who want to jump through hoops of fire. Stone monolithic businesses should not be exempt from paying taxes and contributing to society instead of exploiting society.

Onestarman... so, you have no problem with your tax dollars going Islamic monuments going up in "your" public places?