What amendment does it talk about religion in the Constitution?

Answer 1

The short answer is neither God nor Jesus are mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Nor are they mentioned in the Bill of Rights.

Curiously Article VI Section (3) of the U.S. Constitution is the only reference to religion in the original Constitution and it says "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

Despite being mostly Christian, our Founding Fathers and the government they created specifically avoided and banned the idea that our nation is identified by Christianity. The word "God" on many of our historic buildings in DC reflect at most that our Founding Fathers wanted to recognize a general sense of God- if their intent was to promote this nation specifically as a tolerant Christian nation, "Christ" or "Jesus" should appear in at least some of our documents or buildings. (Since Jesus Christ is the central character of Christianity that sets it apart from other godly religions.)

The Founding Fathers, the nation at the time, and the nation now is one that has a majority of Christians. It is quite another thing (and erroneous) to say that it is a Christian nation.

Interestingly enough but not surprisingly, there have been attempts to add God and Jesus to the US Constitution. Christian attempts to amend the US Constitution occurred in 1864, 1874, 1896 and 1911.

The original version of these amendments stated "We, the people of the United States recognizing the being and attributes of Almighty God, the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior and Lord of all, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Wisely Congress never passed this or similar amendments. But that doesn't mean God didn't creep in in other ways. For example, there is our current national motto which is printed on our money. "In God We Trust"1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Zenke, S. (2006, July 8). God is Not in the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from Majority Rules Blog: http://www.majorityrules.org/2006/07/god-is-not-in-us-constitution-or-bill.html

FOOTNOTES

1. "In God We Trust"1 is the national motto of the United States of America. It was so designated by an act of Congress in 1956 and officially supersedes "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of Many, One) according to United States Code, Title 36, Section 302. President Eisenhower signed the resolution into law on 30 July 1956.

Answer 2

The Constitution does not mention a separation of Church and State.

The First Amendment specifically forbids the Federal Government from establishing an official religion, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

The term, "a wall of separation between Church and State," comes from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church. Somehow, over time, this term, written in a private letter, has come to represent a legal interpretation of the First Amendment.

In recent times it would seem that enforcement of the first part of the amendment, the establishment of a religion, has trumped the second part, prohibiting the free exercise thereof, to a large extent, since it is no less onerous to tell a citizen they cannot utter the words "Merry Christmas" then to tell them that they must...

The text of the letter to the Danbury Baptist Church is as follows (emphasis is mine):

To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephram Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson, a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut

January 1, 1802

Gentlemen,-The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to Save those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.
Th. Jefferson

Answer 3

in the first amendment

Answer 4

the first

Answer 5

No.