On Sun, March 25, 2007 7:40 pm, Christian Seberino wrote: > > On Sun, March 25, 2007 1:12 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: >> Nobody is trying to stamp out religion in politics, prayer in school, or >> any other religious freedom. > > How I wish that were true. You do realize that school prayer has been > illegal for decades?
Prayer is NOT illegal anywhere. FORCED prayer is in government funded institutions. Can't you discern the difference? > >>> Even your beloved Jefferson mentioned God in his Declaration Of >>> Independence. >> >> Jefferson was a self-declared deist, > > So what? And deist != atheist. It's not as far away from it as you might think. deist ~= agnostic > >>> And, Washington in his Farewell Address said: >>> >>> "Of all the habits and dispositions which lead to political prosperity, >> religion and morality are indispensable supports." >>> >> >>>From Wikipedia: > ... > > Well a person's beliefs can be a complex subject. I think we would at > least both agree neither Jefferson nor Washington were atheists right? > >> but people who want >> to argue that this country was FOUNDED as a christian nation really >> don't >> have a whole hell of a lot to back them up. Sure, there were christians >> on >> the job, and the culture of the founders came mostly from christian >> Europe, but they left lots of explicit statements that a christian >> nation >> was NOT their intent. > > They didn't want to *force* people to believe in Christianity but the vast > majority would certainly be happy if more people followed the teachings of > Christianity....be honest, help your neighbor, be faithful to your wife, > etc. Why do you think that? Sexually repressed, superstitious, denying the evidence of the senses and conclusions of reason? This is better for everybody? Not me, thanks. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
