Yes indeed. One of the reasons the framers of the US Constitution wanted a secular state was their familiarity with all the religious wars of Europe. Thomas Jefferson was especially instrumental in this, although now the fundies of Christianity here would like to put an end to that. The Reverend Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, who was just a few years removed from being a contemporary of the so-called founding fathers, said in a sermon in 1831 that 'the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson], not a one had professed a belief in Christianity'.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Don't forget that Christianity also supplied "all the inciting ideas" needed for the Inquisition. Neither religion is at fault -- it's that modernity produces violent personalities that attach themselves to concepts in order to justify slaughter. It's simple murder. Where a religion's elders espouse violence -- same deal -- simple crimes by broken minds.....not a case of a religion's dogma creating violent personalities. If a religion DID create such personalities -- we would have far more violence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : The attack by Muslims in Paris on the magazine Charlie Hebdo, which satirises various subjects, show how much human minds infected with religious memes can deviate from rational social behaviour. This may result in a huge backlash against Muslims who are more peaceful and somewhat less crazy. The news media still does not talk about these things directly, calling the problem terrorism rather than religion, but all the inciting ideas come from Islam. 2015 shooting at Charlie Hebdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo 2015 shooting at Charlie Hebdo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo Two or three masked men stormed the headquarters of the French satrical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, at about 11 a.m. CET (UTC +1). Early reports suggest that 12 people were killed and 10 injured.[2][3] The gunmen entered the building and began sho... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_shooting_at_Charlie_Hebdo Preview by Yahoo