(cross posted from HellcatRepublican.com/blog)

Sarah is 100% right about this.

Even though I don’t belong to any church or follow any religion, except perhaps what I would call Jeffersonian Deism, I’m glad to see Sarah standing up for religion.

The Founders were very clear that the new government they created was dependent on virtue, and that virtue was dependent on religious faith.

The Constitution requires an “Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test” for Senators and Representatives, an “Oath or affirmation” before search and seizure, an “Oath or affirmation” before trying a President for impeachment, an “Oath or Affirmation” before becoming President.

The 14th amendment also strangely mentions that members of Congress and the Executive branch are under oath, but doesn’t recognize affirmation. Perhaps the writers of the 14th Amendment just assumed that an affirmation was equivalent to an oath.

An oath is a promised witnessed by something sacred, usually God. The Founders certainly meant that an oath is a promise witnessed by God. So God is mentioned at least four times in the Constitution, five if you count the 14th Amendment. Don’t let anyone tell you that God is not mentioned in the Constitution.

The Founders intended America to be “one nation, under God.” They understood that without God, America would collapse.

The “reasonist” ideologies are not enough. Socialism, communism, fascism, etc. are not based in faith in God, so they are inherently corrupt. The problem with the current government that it is centered in faith in reasonist ideologies, not faith in God. A return to faith in God would restore sanity, morality and virtue to government.

Stumble it!