This is a response to a question asked in LinkedIn’s Government Policy section.
Here’s the question as posed by Manny U.:

“In God We Trust”
Why so many folks in US trying to remove GOD from various places such as:
“In God We Trust” Removal from currency
“God Bless America” Removal from Schools
You can include removal of prayer in certain [...]

I had a protracted discussion with a fellow clipper on clipmarks today about the role that religion is playing in the 2008 election, which inevitably spilled over into a discussion about the role of religion in our government as a whole.
The argument began with a comment that I made about being a firm believer in [...]

Finally, someone who gets it.
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has filed a lawsuit against God. In the lawsuit he claims that God has caused “calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or [...]