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Just a friendly reminder that the Constitution does not have the word “God” once. 

But it does contain the phrase “promote the general welfare”

Declaration of Independence does.

“Promote” does not mean “Provide”.

Also, general welfare, not individual welfare.

Declaration of Independence is not the founding document of our Government, the founding document of our government does include this interesting part though, 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (x)

The recognition of “God” is the government respecting monotheistic religions, which is also why you will not find it once in the Constitution.

Also, I am opposed to individual welfare, such as corporate tax cuts, bailouts and the like. I firmly support general welfare, such as a Universal Basic Income and Single Payer Healthcare.   

General welfare is the welfare of the union not the individual people.

Since this is confusing to you, let’s look at it in context:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

If you notice, the people of the United States are declaring that that would like a few things:

• Form a more perfect union
• Provide for the common defense
• Promote the general welfare
• Secure liberty

Because of those reasons, We the Peopled are establishing a Constitution.

The people are trying to promote their general welfare is the literal meaning of that statement. They also want to have a more perfect union, but that hasn’t been established yet, so asking to promote the welfare of a union that does not yet exist is rediculous. 

The general welfare is the aggregate of individual welfare. Look at the median. If there’s thousands of people one bad break away from starvation but a couple hundred who could bankrupt a Fortune 500 company and walk away with most of their houses, that’s still not a good General Welfare.

The union is made up of individual people, how can someone be this dense, it’s like the most privileged dehumanizing thing ever just because they don’t like the idea of sharing.