Sorry Michael Flynn, the Constitution does not mention the word “Creator” four times. In fact, it never mentions the word.

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Here is Kyle Mantyla at Right Wing Watch:

Michael Flynn, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who served as national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, spoke at a campaign rally Saturday for MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer in Oklahoma, where he falsely claimed that “the word ‘Creator’ is in the Constitution four times.”

Flynn, who was a key player in so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign and continues to travel the country promoting the “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, has endorsed Lahmeyer, a fellow right-wing conspiracy theorist, in his bid to unseat Sen. James Lankford in the Republican primary. On Saturday, he used his time at Lahmeyer’s campaign rally to deliver a rambling speech insisting that this nation is locked in “a spiritual war” against the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—who he called “a demon”—and therefore needs elected leaders like Lahmeyer who realize that the rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights come from God.

“Democracy is always a fragile type,” Flynn said. “You read the Federalist Papers, you read [the Founder’s] writings—because this is all about the people that we’re talking about tonight running for office, and others that are out there—you read all these things, you study the history of this country, you study how it was founded. That’s why the word ‘Creator’ is in the Constitution four times. ‘We are endowed by our Creator.’”

As a matter of fact, the word “Creator” appears zero times in the Constitution. The phrase “endowed by their Creator” actually appears in the Declaration of Independence.

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Just for the record:

  1. The phrase “we are endowed by our Creator” appears once in the Declaration of Independence. The word “Creator” does not appear in the Constitution.
  2. The word “Creator” appears once in the Declaration of Independence. There are also references in the Declaration of Independence to “nature’s God,” the “Supreme Judge of the World,’ and “divine Providence.”
  3. There is one reference to religion in the United States Constitution. It is in article 6: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
  4. There are references to religion in the First Amendment of the Constitution (1789, roughly two years after the writing of the Constitution): “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”
  5. It is impossible for the Constitution and the Bible to be the “fulfillment of the promises in the Bill of Rights” because both the Bible and the Constitution were written before the Bill of Rights.