Ok...and that amounts to what? It was from last year's congress...not exactly words from the founding fathers.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:34 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party H.RES.397 -- Whereas religious faith was not only important in official American life during the periods of discovery, exploration, colonization, and growth but has also been acknowledged and incorporated... (Introduced in House - IH) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.RES.397: There's a lot of stuff in there. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not only that, but by ratified treaty, and the writings of many of the > founding fathers clearly indicated that the nation was not founded as > a Christian nation. If anything the structure and approach owes more > to pagan Anglo Saxon law and Iroquois governance. > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It really doesn't matter what dogma or faith was expressed by the >> Founding Fathers. What matters is what was codified in law when they >> wrote the documents that set up the nation. The Constitution does not >> in any way create a Christian nation, or a religious nation of any >> stripe, and in fact specifically forbids the creation of a state >> religion. So any claim that this nation was established as a >> Christian nation is absolutely wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:326015 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
