What are you defending - the Constitution or the Bible?

I am well past the despair that drove me to write this. Thanks to Donnamatrix (and less so rainey and a couple others), for showing you all exactly what I have been dealing with. Thanks to the many, many more of you who expressed an understanding, and said that you will defend me even if I do not believe in your god. May we all meet on the PEACE fields!

I have been beaten into submission by my fellow supporters at a critical moment. I do not try to get like this, I try very hard NOT to get like this, but there is something screwed up with my adrenal function ever since I was put on an SSRI. I was ready to march, to fight and die, for months, to defend the Constitution and the people like you who still believe in it as the defining "American" document. And I got to the meetup where it began like this; "I want to open with a prayer, if you are not a Christian just look away and ignore us." It hurt. Why can't I pray, too? I passed a sign the other day; "Prayer vigil, Christians meet here" again - I am specifically NOT invited? I have tried to "go along to get along" and my lifelong belief is that we all have crutches, life is tough, I don't want people kicking at my crutches, I try not to kick theirs. But I was raised in what some call a cult, my husband was raised Jehovah's Witness. We are smart, largely self-educated people (we have degrees, but that education is of limited value) and we do not believe in superstitions or fairy tales of any sort. We take a lot of "science" with a heathy grain of salt, too.
I recruited this one PCP candidate myself, who believes the pledge was written with "under God" in it, which is incorrect. I do not like it there, we are NOT "one nation, under God" we are one nation under the Constitution. One species under our creator I will grant you. But he ranted on for quite a while about this nation having always been a Christian one. I needed him to run, I let him rant. So, here is my answer, to all the Christians who have finally pushed me into defending myself rather than supporting Ron Paul. (I still support Ron Paul, my time is spent reeling from emails from my "fellow supporters" who are damning me for all eternity because they assume I am Christian.) If there is another person out there awake enough to stare into the unknown and say "I don't know" I will still fight and die for your Constitution. I will NOT fight for your Bible any more than I will fight for a Koran, Bhaga Vad Gita or Aesop's Fables.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION

Our Founding Fathers appear to have chosen every word with great care when they crafted the Constitution of the United States of America. We have spent a couple of centuries teasing out intended meanings and subtle nuances of meaning, but for the most part the document is beautifully succinct if one is willing to accept the obvious. One question that arises frequently is whether or not this was designed to be a Christian nation. These articulate men stated their intended purpose thusly:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Not a word about religion.

Make no doubt; many of these men were devout Christians. Did they forget about Jesus and religion? Apparently not, as Article VI ends with this sentence: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” So the first mention is of “NO religious test shall EVER be required…”

However, the very First Amendment is known as the “Freedom of Religion” amendment so the right to practice their faith was clearly of great importance to them. How EXACTLY did they wish to see this freedom protected? Amendment 1 states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The first thing is to protect AGAINST the establishment of a religion, the right to excersise freely comes next.

This concludes the founding fathers thoughts on religion as it related to the establishment of the nation. Perhaps it is unfair to hold this document out alone, for the Declaration of Independence is also something that defines an “American.”

The Declaration’s opening line mentions God, in these terms “…equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God…” “NATURE’S God,” cited AFTER “the Laws of Nature.” This seems like an accident to the modern Christian? In paragraph two, these erudite men mention things “endowed by their Creator…” Not Jesus, not Christ, not even “our Lord God” but the inarguable “Creator.” Even the most die-hard athiest believes he has a mother and father that created him. The final reference to any diety is in the final sentence: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” The final mention of the divine is to “Providence” and this word was chosen as wisely as the others for its ability to unite, not divide, on the concept of religion. Please note the thing they called “sacred” was our Honor.
End rant.
If you actually got to the bottom of this, please plan to attend our "After the Rapture Party" on December 25, 2012. We figure the Christians will be done with the day by then, and we will still have the day off work. :)