I can't answer your historical questions (and as with most quotations from the time, unless they were written in a publication by the supposed author, accuracy is never assured), but dude this post is so funny. Here:
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Originally posted by ThetaPrincess24
So then can you tell me how, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
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a.) this doesn't represent "everything we've done for 220 years"
b.) the entire point of the constitution is to make religion free and accessible for everyone, making none of them illegal
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Originally posted by ThetaPrincess24
It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a mess about having the 10 commandments on display or "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the 14% to Sit Down and SHUT UP!!! Or go back to their country to live.
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This is great, just so funny - "If you don't believe in God, go back to your own country!" I hope this isn't the part you 'strongly agree' with, because I'm an American citizen, 5th generation Irish Protestant, and my little brother is an atheist. Boy, I'd hate to have to send him back to his nation - wherever the hell that would be. It's just nonsense, kiddo - rule your own life by God, rule the nation by law, and never the twain shall meet.
Also, the Supreme Court building, the Capital building, etc - these all weren't built on the day the Constitution was signed. In fact, DC wasn't even the capital of the nation then, IIRC. So these were decisions made post hoc, and they were poor ones. "Majority rule" may apply to lawmaking, but it does not apply to constitutional protections - and the Ten Commandments have no place in lawmaking, even if the majority of them have become, in turn, laws. They're great moral rules, but that sort of process is expressly forbidden.