(May 31, 2011 at 1:56 pm)Godschild Wrote: ...I care that most of these men were christians because it did influnce the way our constitution was written and I thank God for calling them to this great task. No matter how much you desire that this country not be founded on christian principles IT WAS.Is that why god allowed them to break sixth commandment when colonizing the americas? Or was that because they were only killing dirty red Indians, which can hardly be considered human anyway? If you believe that God had anything to do with the founding of this country, then he is responsible for the blood thirsty genocide of nearly an entire race. Then again, you Christians have never had a problem with that, as long as it wasn't against good, white, Christian men. So if applying the sixth commandment to only those you deem worthy of life is Christian principles, then by all means, take credit for it.
It's a cold hard fact this country was founded on the blood of the Native Americans, so god is either a racist or had nothing to do with it. Which would you prefer?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
