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The Last Verse of the Star Spangeled Banner
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There has been a
push by many people to get the words In God we Trust kicked off our
money
siting the fact that it wasn't even added to our bills until 1956.
While
it is true that it didn't appear appear on our bills till then, the
phrase
started appearing on our coins in 1864. It replaced the motto "E
Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One") because it was
redundant with The United States of America. But not even that
was the first time as simular phrase entered the National
Vocabulary. In 1812 a lawyer named Francis Scott Key wrote
the Star Spangled Banner. We have
all heard the first verse of the song but few of us seem to have been
privledged enough to hear the last verse which is written below..
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O! thus be it ever
when
freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd home, and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued
land,
Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our Trust;"
And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave.
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If
it were wrong to recognize God and country at the same time a lawyer
should have recognized this fact but yet he did not have a problem with
it. The song was written 37 years after our founding as a
country.so many people who were alive when the constitution was signed
we around when the song
was written. If the athiest were right and Christians had little
representation at our founding there should have been some trouble
getting the poem to
take off but according to http://www.francisscottkey.org/
the song because In a short period the lyrics were familiar throughout
the United States.
It was written before Thomas Jefferson had died, if it were as
distasteful I should be able to find records of his negative remarks
but I haven't
found them yet but just to be safe I just wrote a letter asking
about
the former presidents feelings about the song to his former home and
hopefully I will soon get a response.
Update: The response to the letter was that his local paper published
the lyrics, and that Thomas Jefferson subscribed to that paper, so he
probably had exposure to the words, but no records are to be found of
his response.
I just found a web page written by an athiest asking everone who reads
it to "make an weekly, monthly, annual or at least once ritual of
writing the secretary of the Treasury, your congressmen, and senators
with your thoughts on the constitutionality of this motto" Well I ask
you to do the same please write atleast once to all those afore
mentioned people and the them just
how you feel about the Motto In God we trust. We have to be atleast as
vocal
as our opponents.
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Fort McHenry-
Birthplace of Our National Anthem
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Thomas
Jefferson's Faith
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Which is more important Apologetics
or a Testimony?
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Are All Sins Equal in the Eyes of
God?
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The Apostle's Creed
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