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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
The word God only appears once in the Declaration of Independence..
"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."
Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript |
"The word God only appears once in the Declaration of Independence.."
you left out the very next sentence...
"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"
Safe to say that by man's "creator", they meant God?
So the first 2 sentences of the Declaration each make reference to God. We've come a long way from that, to the DNC platform...