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The plaques are inscribed with passages from the Book of Psalms, specifically, by chapter and verse 68:4, 66:4 and 104.24. The last verse, in the King James Version of the Bible, reads: "O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches."
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If this isn't
religious poetry, what is? I don't have a Bible handy, so I can't comment on the other verses. It's practically a prayer, a prayer to the christian God on public goverment land.
Here is an unrealistic thought: A series of plaques from all different religions and philosophies, including aethistism, exhalting the virtues of natural beauty and bingo-the goverment is neither establishing any one religion at the Grand Canyon, nor denying any one religion at the Grand Canyon.
The only realistic answer is removing blatant and evn subtle religiousism of all sorts from goverment places, building and things.
If people didn't try to egotistically push their religion on other people through out the ages, it probably wouldn't even matter.