On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Historically speaking we have two foundations in America. The foundation of > the government, and by extension, the nation, is religious only insofar that > it recognizes the existance of a higher power, called God as a matter of > convenience.
The word God does not exist in the Constitution. It is only in the Declaration in the first sentence which says: 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. > Culturally we do have a Christian base. A huge percentage of us can trace our > lineage to the Mayflower, which, as you'll recall, had such a big religious > stick of their collective butt that the British, a people famous for > buttsticks, kicked them out. I forget the exact percentage, but I think it's > in the 70s. At any rate we carry many traditions and cultural values to this > day from the Pilgrims. Claims to the contrary by social climbers, few people can actually trace their lineage to the Mayflower. There was only 102 people on the Mayflower and over half of them died in the first year. Those on the Mayflower, however, were religious separatists and would have been among the first to call for separation of church and state. > > What this means is that, yes, we have a Christian stone or three in the > foundation of this nation. That's a big difference from being 'built on > Christianity'. Exactly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320708 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
