God needs to stay in America.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams -If that's not true than why is it the people trying to change things so much in the Constitution are trying to make it more for an un-religious people? "How so, I would argue that it was founded on principle of breaking away from Britain?" -Breaking away from Britain to have Religious Freedom. "By this I would suppose you to mean that our founding fathers were religious men. Well first off, prove this please. Secondly would you agree that most people at that time were religious and being so would be a precedent for being any type of accepted member in society? Thirdly, why must we be religious if our forefathers were? At one point our forefathers believed the earth was flat, at one point that the earth revolved around the sun. At one time our forefathers believed blacks should be slaves to whites. At one time they believed women lesser than men. To follow exactly in the footsteps of our forefathers would be to render society worthless. (Unless you consider that to be utopia....?)" -They were religious. Look at the Constitution, the First amendment was the religion part. I don't think that was just randomly put there, it was something they felt strongly about and wanted everyone to have. Even you having the right to practice no religion. "Why? What affect does god on our constitution have? Does it make us better people? Would we suddenly fall into anarchy without such? Are the laws of the United States obeyed because there is the word god in our constitution? Where is your argument based?" -Refer back to the quote by John Adams. And Religion does in fact make us better people. Generally speaking religion brings about good works. Churches help the poor, do service work etc... I happen to be Mormon, in our articles of faith #12 it says "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law." We live by that, and many other religions feel the same about obeying the law. Therefore God/Religion do have an effect on people keeping the law. "Same as the last one. Would our money be worthless without the phrase "in god we trust". Furthermore on this one.... would god even want this? You are raising the most materialistic object in his name. What has caused more bank robberies, murders, and crimes in general than money itself. Should we have such associated with god? Is it his will to be on the currency?" -(I realize you don't believe in God) But God has given us everything. Life, Food, Land, etc... "In God we Trust" should be a reminder that God has given us everything, everything we can buy with that money was given to us from God, so it is giving him credit for that. Money isn't meant to be seen as something bad. "Hmmmm... Well... what god are you talking about? The phrase "in god we trust" infers we are trusting in the same god. That doesn't leave much wiggle room for multiple religions. How does this work under a multi-religion society. The U.S isn't just a small colony anymore, it has had massive immigration from literally everywhere. What happens to the buddhists, muslims, hindhus, universists, jews, athiests? I am assuming you are talking christian god, only about 33% of the population of the world hold that belief. What happens to the rest? Is it possible this will create strife in school? Gangs? Shootings? Is that what your god wants?" -god is pretty much a title. god could be seen as a greater being, of whatever religion you want. I'm totally fine with people thinking what they want, that's up to them to worship "How, where and what they please" So any religion should be welcomed in school. Christians, Muslims, Jews, should all be able to worship their "god" (Or whatever they believe in) in public, including school. "What if we don't believe in your god.....? This country was based on freedom wasn't it? It was created because of the injustities that were occurring from the british. Read the declaration of independence. Is forcing government control over a person's personal beliefs really just? Say in the future the majority of the population becomes buddhist. Would it be right for them to enforce their religion on you? Would you enjoy your children being taught buddhism in schools? Would you enjoy "in budda we believe" on our currency? In our constitution?" -I don't think anyone should be forced to believe anything. Your welcome to believe or not believe whatever you want. Learning about religion is a good thing, if it was equal and my children were taught about budda, but they were still taught about Christ it'd be fine. Knowledge of something can lead away from conflict, so that'd actually be good. (And once again, god is more of a title) The quote from John Adams explains it all. (And sorry this is my first debate, so I'm still trying to figure it all out.)