One Nation Under God?

I only see more and more professing their faith in our area...maybe the polls were not so much a sampling, but rather a selective poll????

As a fighter pilot here at Miramar air station in San Diego for seven years, I have never encountered another pilot who didn't believe in Jesus Christ or God. This may be only a small percentage of people as an example, but for the most part I would estimate that the majority of my fellow Navy men and women are believers as well.

We perform a service of protecting our Country that is dangerous and requires us to sacrifice our freedom as a civilian and to put ourselves in harms way by our own choice. I could not fly my F18 Hornet whether in practice or actual engagement if I only had to answer to myself or my commanding officer. The job I perform requires not only that I have the courage, knowledge and skill to fly my aircraft effectively and to meet my objective, but also requires a spiritual conscious and belief.

I guess the old saying "You will never find an Atheist in a fox hole", is still accurate today.

As a fighter pilot here at Miramar air station in San Diego for seven years, I have never encountered another pilot who didn't believe in Jesus Christ or God. This may be only a small percentage of people as an example, but for the most part I would estimate that the majority of my fellow Navy men and women are believers as well.

We perform a service of protecting our Country that is dangerous and requires us to sacrifice our freedom as a civilian and to put ourselves in harms way by our own choice. I could not fly my F18 Hornet whether in practice or actual engagement if I only had to answer to myself or my commanding officer. The job I perform requires not only that I have the courage, knowledge and skill to fly my aircraft effectively and to meet my objective, but also requires a spiritual conscious and belief.

I guess the old saying "You will never find an Atheist in a fox hole", is still accurate today.

If we could get rid of the lying news journalists, America could actually regain its luster. As long as the lying, biased, stupid journalists are allowed to strut their incompetence, America will look like a pile of fecal matter. Journalists have built that pile with their incompetence, bias, and outright lies. Journalists are like mosquitoes, they are better off killed.

I don't know who was polled but everyone I know on both sides of the Country say they are Christians. Where and who did Newsweek poll? This is nothing more than the left wing part of society talking.

This is interesting since 85% of Americans right after 9/11 claimed to believe in God and to be "christians". Even later polls have shown a majority of Americans claim to be christian". Fickle Americans, or wishful thinking on the part of the socialist democrats and their aetheist propagandists in the media?

The idea that this is a "Christian nation" is purely political, and not only lacks a basis in fact, it directly contradicts the fact that this was intended from the beginning to be a religiously neutral nation. How many of the founders weren't even Christian? Deism was as important a force in guiding their beliefs, as a group, as was Christianity. I am glad to see Americans finally coming around to the nation that freedom of religion means just that - freedom; to choose or not choose, and that it necessarily involves freedom FROM religion in the public sphere. Have your beliefs - preach them to your friends and families, but do NOT try to impose them through the use of my tax money, and DO NOT try to restrict the freedom of people outside your church, based on your own religious beliefs. To do so (e.g. Proposition 8) is a profoundly un-American concept, that would have the founders of this nation vomiting blood.

Morals are innate and/or taught by parents/guardians/teachers/friends. Being kind and helpful to other people and animals makes me feel good inside for reasons I'll never know. I left the church about 10 years ago after repeatedly seeing those around me in church with their nice dresses and suits on trying to sing their sins away. I am not saying all people who go to church are bad-- it's just that I don't need to go there. I also think the church has no place in our government-- they should be receiving zero dollars of our tax money!

Sigh.

Arrogance and ignorance beget arrogance and ignorance on both sides. "You" make broad generalizations about another's beliefs as though your beliefs are superior because you have no faith. If you are one who does so, you're as bad as the darkness you supposedly see.

I'm speaking as someone raised, fallen away from, objective to, and seeking, but still tolerant as to others belief. As we ALL should be. It's called objectivity and critical thinking. Learn it, live it ,love it

The US is a deeply religious land because we are free to be so on an individual level. We still understand as a collective that while our choices are guided by our morals, that the church has a certain place in our life and interferring with the givernment isn't the wisest part.

On a side note, speaking of morals: Where do they originate from? Are they innate to humanity? Or did they come from teaching within a church/temple/etc. ?

Many Americans who identify themselves as Christians (including myself) do not identify with the fundamentalist brand of Christianity espoused by many members of the last administration and, indeed, by a significant portion of self-described political conservitaves in general. We hesitate to call our country "Christian" for fear of this label being interpreted as fundamentalist and politically conservative. In addition, each person is created equal and is treated as equal before the law, which is based on reason and not on religion. My Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Native American neighbors are to be treated the same as my Christian brethren before the law. This is the real reason why it is not correct to call us a Christian nation. We uphold the rule of law. Our government is a secular institution and for good reason.

Ah progress for our secular democracy as more and more people wake up to the lies of faith. We can thank the christian conspiracy and immoral minority for giving us the Reagan, Bush, Bush National Debt of over $10 trillion and for making our country a pariah around the world. The evangelical christian lunatic fringe is the greatest threat to our secular democracy and the sooner they have no influence in our country the better off all of us will be. Our forefathers knew the evils of religion sticking it's ugly nose into politics and that's why they insisted wisely upon Separation of church and State.

It's a sign of the times. The Bible prophesied that in the "last days" there would be a "falling away" from the faith. Those who aren't grounded on the foundation of Christ Jesus will fall from the faith. 1 Timothy 4: 1-3

In my opinion, a strong ethical understanding and objective view of the world as it exhists today far and away supersedes any metaphorical teachings a religious ideaology can provide. Nor do I need to believe in a God or some "gray haired father figure creator" in the heavens for me to look at that same sky, or any other naturally occuring phenomena to realize that it is truely a wondrous feat of creation and that we are all able to enjoy and take part of this sublime beauty. I also don't need any of this phenomena to be explained away by the belief in some heavenly creator as I am certain there is a scientific reason why everything exists, whether or not we will ever truely understand the scientific process behind it or not. What worries me more than anything this is the insanely zealous and irrational behaviour of some of the people on this planet who buy into their particular brand of religous ideology lock, stock and barrel and use it to polarize and justify the most abhorrent beliefs and behavior imaginable.

@Cat456: Your argument against religion is that it's based on faith. The word faith means that something is taken without proof. Religion is (mostly) based on faith. There are a few that claim to have seen proof.

Your argument, while based on needing logical proof and fact to support anything, is illogical in itself because of the very definition of fath.

You can argue someone's facts. You can *try* to argue someone's beliefs. There is a difference..

@Cat456: What is your problem exactly with someone else's faith? The lack that you haven't found any?

Isn't it funny that according to the article "The survey was conducted among 1,003 adults, age 18 and over, on April 1 and 2, 2009" Now, I'm in college and have taken a class on statistics an do understand that you can get a good representation of a population based on a good sized sample. But is there really a point to arguing over an article that talks about a nation of 350million + people when they are using 1,003 peoples opinions??