The United States Constitution has many timeless and powerful words. "God" just doesn't happen to be one of them. Our Founding Fathers did included freedom of religion, the establishment clause and a prohibition on religious tests for office. (Memo to Mitt Romney: that's why so many people consider your past statements about keeping Muslim Americans out of your cabinet so reprehensible.) But America's contract with itself does not mention "God", "Creator" or "the Almighty."
Nevertheless, the Republican commentariat has once again taken to the fainting couch as the 2012 Democratic platform's strong language reaffirming the role of faith in American life didn't feature Him by name.
GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, who until recently worshipped at the altar of the atheist Ayn Rand, led the charge:

"I think it's rather peculiar," Ryan said on "Fox & Friends." "It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government. I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of God."

Of course, it's more than a little ironic that the Republican National Committee led by Reince Priebus called the Democrats' text "disgraceful." After all, the GOP believes our Godless Constitution was both perfect as first written and in need of an extremist makeover.
It's not just that Fox News host Sean Hannity purchases the work of an artist who paints Jesus presenting Americans with their Constitution. When President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court, the RNC launched an attack on her praise for her mentor, Justice Thurgood Marshall:

"Does Kagan Still View Constitution 'As Originally Drafted And Conceived' As 'Defective'?"

Marshall's blasphemy? In 1987, he stated the inescapable truth about our Founding Fathers that "the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today." Nevertheless, the next year temporary GOP frontrunner Michele Bachmann reassured us, "We also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
Of course, when they aren't insisting that the Constitution was immaculately conceived, Republicans are demanding to rewrite it wholesale. They don't merely act as if the Civil War never happened and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments never ratified. They want to drop the 16th and 17th and then add "human life" and balanced budget amendments in their place.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote that our unalienable rights come from "Nature's God," our Creator. But the Constitution opens by explaining that "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 "our rights come from nature and God, not from government," as Paul Ryan told the Republican National Convention, the American people have not seen fit to make that point in the United States Constitution since the Framers affixed their names to it on "the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven."