(January 18, 2017 at 9:33 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:Dag, Simon. That's in the Constitution? So if we want to get Christians to abandon the idea that their god is a conservative republican, all we have to do is show them what the constitution says. They'll drop all pretense and come right out as proponents of the theocracy they're really after.(January 18, 2017 at 9:13 pm)Pulse Wrote: That's because we have laws in this world that are mostly based on the Ten Commandments which are reflected in most religions and we thus no longer act like barbarians.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Treaty of Tripoli. Signed under President Washington, ratified under President Adams.
Article 11:
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.