IN GOD WE TRUST! Marine Stuns Tea Party with Fourth Verse of Star Spangled Banner

Loved that fourth verse, We are starting to see Christians taking a stand, Praying for God to intervene and recently saw it in our Nation.

In the past 20 years, I've led this verse for singing in our church. Sadly, it's been mostly ignored. I wasn't looking for any accolades, just a hint that my church family was alive and awake. I'm afraid the church is largely asleep at the wheel, and this nation will suffer further if we don't wake up! I have no idea what flavor of Christian that veteran is, but I'd rather spend a year of Sundays with him than anywhere!

You are right Cathy, they are not directly connected. ============================================== **THE FOUNDING FATHERS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)**. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of NATURE'S GOD entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL; THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. **THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER - verse 4- (1814)**. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "IN GOD IS OUR TRUST." **THE PLEDGE OF ALLIGENCE (added in 1954)**. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ============================================== However the purpose I was referring to is consistent in all 3, the reference to God, for 300 years, God was listed in every declaration, song, and pledge. Were is God today? Are we "One Nation under God". That is all I was trying to say. I never even knew this fourth verse existed...I wonder why. It seems as if everyone is trying to erase Him out of everything....this song (ALL 4 verses) should be played more often. p.s. I did notice alot more people "like" it now, so all is good. Thanks for sharing your thoughts back, have a GREAT day!

Glory be to God! The bravery of this marine shall not go un-noticed nor his standing in vain. May God bless all who stand in agreement with this marine--- who boldly call on God's Holy Majestic Name! It is the blood that covers us and His love that will lead us through the night with a light from above!

Npt am american. But fight on you must.

God bless America! What the Lord has showed and required you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.( Micah6:8).

God bless America! What the Lord has showed and required you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah6:8)

wow! That gave me chills. Thanks for sharing this with the world!

I posted and reposted this on the 4th of July. This video brings tears to my eyes and makes me so proud, everytime I watch it. Thank You Marine Lewis! May God Bless You and May God continue to Bless America!

Unlike most of you, I have 6 hours of graduate level Constitutional Law and have actually read and studied the US Constitution. I carry a copy in my purse. We do have separation of church and state. It was carefully written into the Constitution. The fact that a poem written for the War of 1812, that didn't become our national anthem until 1916, has a verse mentioning God is totally irrelevant.

Only in America world you see a hate Organisation (Tea party) meeting used as an example of Christianity for political ends.

"I unsubscribed to Godtube. After they sent me propaganda about those people who in the 60s would have been wearing cone shaped hats and burning cross and were white racist who now call themselves the Tea Party. To try to say such people are Christians is an insult to the everything that Jesus stands for."

The complete version of the Star Spangled Banner is included in my church Hymn Book. We sing the complete 4 stanzas on Thanksgiving, Memorial Day and Independence Day.

BTW, there are no former marines! Once a marine, always a marine.

I don't see what this has to do with anything of a secular nation as the poem was written in 1814, well after the founding, and wasn't standardized as anything official for the nation until 1917. Its a song, and up until the 20th century there were various versions. Get over it, what a bunch of whack jobs.

I'm not an American but I got goose bumps watching this. God Bless the United States.