If we get rid of God, who do we worship?

This morning I listened to a little bit of Glenn Beck on the radio. He opened the segment by talking about how we’ve chased God out of our lives. He made the point that our system of government was based on man’s rights coming from God and that the government was put in place to protect those rights. Today our system of government doesn’t seem to be based on anything.

He introduced Senator Jim DeMint (SC) to talk about the new capitol visitor’s center, which, naturally, was almost $700 million over budget. Senator DeMint said that any references to God in our nation’s history were intentionally omitted from any of the displays at the center. They even carved in a marble column that our nation’s motto is “E Pluribus Unum”, which is a lie. Our national motto is “In God we trust”.

The visitors center has a large engraving that says “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common Oracle but the Consitution.” Whether any of our lawmakers consult the Constitution anymore is debatable.

GLENN: But it’s so offensive to me that our Capitol, it is becoming a temple. Our government and our leaders are positioning themselves. We could see wit Obama and we can see it quite honestly, when you take God out, who is giving law? The law’s got to be coming from lawmakers, from the Supreme Court or the capital. This is — and Senator DeMint, I assume — I’m sorry, I don’t know this and it doesn’t really matter. I don’t usually, you know, card people on this but I assume that you’re a real God-fearing man. Does it at all ever frighten you that — I mean, it’s, we are getting to the point to where we’re not just disengaging from God. It is like we are slapping him across the face.

SENATOR DeMINT: Well, it’s really the radicalization of this idea of separation of church and state where I think our founders did want a government that made decisions that were not based on promoting any religion, in effect a secular government. But we have taken that to extremes where the government is now purging religion and faith from our entire society, whether it’s a high school football game. I mean, you follow it all the way through. The secularization of America is out of control and the problem with that is right on the heels of secularization comes socialism, and you can follow that through history, something I’ve been working on a lot during the holidays here is just tracking the history of freedom and what we have to do to save it, and it’s so obvious that secularization expands across the country — and we’ve seen it in Europe — it follows, socialism follows and the loss of a lot of our freedoms. Our freedom is built on faith in God and when we lose that sense of history, we lose a whole lot more than just a little bit of history. We lose what we are as a people and so a lot of us have chosen to fight this, and we really can’t fight it very well inside of congress because the Democrats now have a majority and it’s hard to get something like this through, and the only way we were able to get this changed is go to people like you on the outside who have a microphone and get the people themselves engaged, and we’ve gotten these few things changed. And they said that they would include in their rotation of exhibits more about our religious history, but they’re not going to do that unless we force them to. Read full transcript.

 Senator DeMint gets it, but I’m afraid too many of our lawmakers don’t. They believe our rights come from them which is nonsense. If our rights come from government, doesn’t that mean government can take away those rights? And why are we building temples to our government? Government is to be held accountable, not worshipped. It’s complete insanity!

The best line in the interview came from Senator DeMint after audio of Harry Reid saying American tourists smell bad. DeMint said “well, first of all, they are not tourists, they are stockholders. And I remind everyone who comes to the Capitol that they are not touring. This is their capitol, it’s their country and it’s really up to them what happens to us in the future.”

Why can’t all politicians think that way?