Those who have posted about the Constitution and endowed by their creator are wrong. That phrase is in the Declaration of Independence. It is not a legal document, it is a political statement directed specifically at King George who if you remember your history was not just the King of England but ruled by divine right (although some diminution of the divine right had already come to England by 1776). Thus when beseeching the King it is important to go over his head if you wish to act in opposition to his edicts. It was therefore in a political sense that the authors invoked rights from the Creator (never was the word God Lord Jesus Christian or any other specific creator mentioned). Prior to that phrase the terms Laws of Nature and Nature's God are used. Never the term mankind's God or anything similar. It is a very specific use of language invoking the arguments of Locke and others. I have always been amused that among the grievances against the King was that he encouraged the Merciless Indian Savages to attack the American frontiersmen.
The DOI is an important document. It is not however the Constitution. The Constitution was meant to guide the new nation when the Articles of Confederation were failing. Religion appears twice.
The first Amendment mentions religion and of course firmly states that there shall be no establishment of religion (which of course meant Christianity as it was the only possible religion that could have been chosen)
article 6 states :
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.
No religious test means what it says. The wording about Oath or affirmation is also important. The difference is that an oath is typically taken on a religious object eg Bible, whereas an affirmation is simply a statement agreeing to a set of conditions.
Whereas the phrase so help me God has been used in swearing in ceremonies, in fact that phrase is not part of the Constitutional Oath.
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