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Author Topic:   Is America a Christian Nation?
jar
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Message 87 of 206 (628073)
08-06-2011 3:25 PM
Reply to: Message 86 by Phat
08-06-2011 3:13 PM


Re: Has to be content and not source of moral character
Phat writes:
Who are they to claim that we are non theists? And why cant I start everything off with God instead of a bunch of mortal imperfections?
It's a good thing that they don't make that claim then.

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Message 91 of 206 (628382)
08-09-2011 8:39 AM
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08-09-2011 8:28 AM


Re: Has to be content and not source of moral character
Yes, but did you read what you quoted?
You posted "Who are they to claim that we are non theists?"
They made no such claim. It is the "Humanist Manifesto II", and so it applies to "Humanists".

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Message 98 of 206 (628543)
08-10-2011 9:37 AM
Reply to: Message 97 by Robert Byers
08-10-2011 1:05 AM


Re: Christian Nation Quiz
Yet its a very Puritan/Protestant people in heart and soul and mind.
Utter nonsense. In fact the Puritan heart and soul was what almost all of the colonies feared and was a direct cause of the US becoming a secular nation.
Therefore since the people more then any others in history influence the nation then the nation has been more religious then any others.
If the "people" you are referring too are the Puritans, the only influences they had on the Nation were negative, that it was necessary to keep them from gaining any power.

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Message 104 of 206 (628817)
08-13-2011 8:26 AM
Reply to: Message 102 by Robert Byers
08-13-2011 3:56 AM


Robert Byers writes:
America is the most moral and intelligent people in human history because of the Evangelical motivation save God's blessing.
Every baby born is genetically a Puritan/Evangelical Englishman.
Amazing.
America is the most moral and intelligent people in human history?
Do you have some evidence to support that assertion?
Every baby born is genetically a Puritan/Evangelical Englishman?
Do you have some evidence to support that assertion?

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Message 130 of 206 (659493)
04-16-2012 10:11 AM
Reply to: Message 128 by OpticalIllusions
04-16-2012 8:12 AM


Gotta Call "POE!"
But you are one of the most interesting Poes yet.
Congratulations.

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Message 136 of 206 (659664)
04-17-2012 10:08 PM
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04-17-2012 9:44 PM


I assume you have some evidence of that and some indication of how even IF that were true, it would have anything to do with the topic?

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Message 148 of 206 (663792)
05-26-2012 6:53 PM
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05-26-2012 6:40 PM


Re: Madison And Jefferson
Please show the reference to Christianity in either document?

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Message 151 of 206 (663806)
05-26-2012 8:09 PM
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05-26-2012 8:01 PM


Re: Madison And Jefferson
Gish Gallop much?
The question was to find out where Christianity was mentioned in the US Declaration of Independence or your cite from the Virginia Statute and it just is NOT there.
Thank GOD the US is NOT a Christian Nation and never has been.

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Message 154 of 206 (663815)
05-26-2012 8:41 PM
Reply to: Message 152 by Jzyehoshua
05-26-2012 8:17 PM


Re: Madison And Jefferson
Well, I ignored it as I often do when Creationists try to pull a Gish Gallop and simply throw out yet another unsupported assertion.
Until you actually provide support for the new assertion that "The U.S. was founded on William Penn's 1682 government, the Province of Pennsylvania, which clearly was a Christian nation" I will simply continue chuckling.
The Gish Gallop is not a new tactic to the folk here; throw out yet another unsupported assertion and when that gets refuted then throw out another unsupported assertion.

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Message 157 of 206 (663821)
05-26-2012 9:08 PM
Reply to: Message 156 by Jzyehoshua
05-26-2012 8:56 PM


Re: Madison And Jefferson
Because you were shown to be wrong in your assertion that the US Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute mentioned Christianity in any way.
Now you are making yet another series of unsupported assertions that the US Democracy was based on the Pennsylvania Government.
Much of the US Government is based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Does that mean the US is an Indian Spirit Nation?
The US was designed to make sure that NO religion played a part in Government.
In addition, what the Founding Fathers imagined is also irrelevant. In case you haven't noticed we are not living in the 1600's.
The Founding Fathers were smart enough to realize that what they believed government should be was irrelevant to later generations. Fortunately today we have the "Lemon Test" and unless there is a SECULAR purpose to any legislation it is rightfully to be found unconstitutional.

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Message 160 of 206 (663826)
05-26-2012 9:40 PM
Reply to: Message 159 by Jzyehoshua
05-26-2012 9:32 PM


Re: Madison And Jefferson
And still has nothing to do with the topic.

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Message 176 of 206 (664081)
05-28-2012 9:55 PM
Reply to: Message 175 by Jzyehoshua
05-28-2012 9:49 PM


Re: and then there is Roger Williams ...
Any law must, let me repeat, must primarily have a secular purpose.
As a Christian I fully support keeping the Ten Commandments, references to God, prayers in schools restricted and removing "Under God" from the Pledge and "In God We Trust" from all currency.
This is not an atheist Christian issue, it is an issue of keeping Church and Government separated.

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Message 179 of 206 (664096)
05-28-2012 10:46 PM
Reply to: Message 178 by Jzyehoshua
05-28-2012 10:34 PM


Re: and then there is Roger Williams ...
Freedoms exist based on societal consensus. Notice that the Declaration of Independence starts "We hold..."
It is a matter of a group expressing a belief statement.
There is no such thing as ultimate right or wrong. Again, those things evolve through consensus.
No creator has EVER kept one person from infringing on the rights of another person.
Morality too evolves through building a consensus within a State, society or culture.
And we must keep faith and the Government separated.

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Message 195 of 206 (664145)
05-29-2012 11:12 AM
Reply to: Message 194 by Coragyps
05-29-2012 9:31 AM


Re: what pledge
And because we had to relearn the pledge already, we should be exempt for the next round. However, "Play Ball" should never be removed from the National Anthem.

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Message 198 of 206 (664157)
05-29-2012 2:25 PM
Reply to: Message 190 by Jzyehoshua
05-29-2012 1:35 AM


Evidence please.
Another example would be the homosexual hate crimes laws that are allowing pastors to be sued for not performing gay weddings, photographers for not photographing gay weddings, and doctors for not performing in vitro fertilization on lesbian couples. Those are all cases of infringing on the religious freedoms of others.
Can you present ANY evidence of any of those things happening?

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