Our Agnostic Constitution Summary

In Our Agnostic Constitution, Steven Smith submits a concrete argument involving the misrepresentation of the interpretation of an agnostic constitution. If the United States constitution was in fact made religious it would help create a divide amongst the communities, and produce rebellion. When the Founding Fathers drafted our original Constitution, they took in to account the religious diversities and the foundation of opposing belief systems. Smith illustrates how religious belief and everyday life situations causes dissonance within a person. It is possible to believe something to be true but act in another manner. “It turns out that believing is, or can be layered in communities in a way analogous to the way it is layered in individuals.” Thus, rebellion and social divide are implications of Christian

Conflicting information from the outside world challenges religious belief especially when people are faced with scientific findings, facts and treatments in the medical realm. Humans have started pushing the age limit to higher limits than ever before, we are living longer and science is helping in the process of this extension. Belief in a higher being provides healthier thoughts about not going through a traumatic health problem alone, it provides hope that rescue is near and the higher being has given other people the ability to correctly take care of their needs. With what Smiths calls an Agnostic Constitution, our communities are permitted to practice their faiths and see the light for their lives. The United States has been built on diversity; we were all once immigrants looking for a better life, with an agnostic constitution the governments should support that mission. Should this be made clear in our constitution that the government does not support this matter and declares that religious