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Author Topic:   What religious rights, if any, are currently being eroded in the USA?
IrishRockhound
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Message 181 of 228 (109019)
05-18-2004 11:35 AM
Reply to: Message 174 by Cold Foreign Object
05-17-2004 4:23 PM


Sorry about butting in here guys, but speaking as a non-American...
Thank the gods I live in a country that's short on fundamentalists.
Willow, I have a few questions... do you realise what kind of impression you're giving here? You're making every other intelligent American on the board look like a fool.
Also, as far as I know, the Founding Fathers just wanted religious equality seeing as they were fleeing religious persecution. (I thought that was the whole point of whichever Constitutional thing gives you freedom of religion). Religious equality automatically means that they couldn't favour any religion over another, so to keep it simple they invented the separation of Church and State. Am I right so far? So the state cannot even endorse the religion that may have created it, because it must maintain religious equality. It's got nothing to do with atheism - atheism isn't even a religion so technically it is entirely irrelevent, simply because there is nothing for the State to 'protect'. The State is not being hostile to Christianity - it's simply being impartial, as it should be to all religions and that's exactly what the Founding Fathers seemed to have wanted.
You sound like a complete paranoid in your post. There is no 'atheist agenda', unless you think you can prove otherwise. And what the hell is 'god sense'? I have 'god sense' in that I believe in a god - I just don't believe in YOUR god. So am I part of the 'atheist agenda'?
You also sound totally arrogant and intolerant. So Christians are the true religion and only TOLERATE other religions in THEIR country? That the apostasy will end with a 'Great Tribulation' (Apocalypse?) and Christians will rule the world and 'rectify' all the nonsense of these other religions?!?
If you really believe this rubbish that you insist on spouting, you are no Christian. Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbour; the whole message of peace and love preached by your Messiah - and you ignore it in favour of hatred and war. You sicken me, WillowTree - you call yourself a Christian, but you find it so much easier to hate rather than understand; worst of all, you don't even realise how wrong it is.
The Rock Hound

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