$150,000 wasted on another futile attempt to destroy the separation of church and sta

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I have no fucking clue why christians try to force the idea that "america was based on christian values". Christ like values? Forcing everybody to be like christ? Seriously? Let's just change the country's slogan to: "MARTYR'S R US", and everybody will be stoked on what we really have to offer. >.<

It's so they can justify their actions.

The bullshit goes something like this: "America was founded as a Christian country". As support for this statement they mention the many groups of people who came here because they were running from religious persecution. They take the founding father's and "adjust" things to make them all Christians, preferably fundamentalist Christians. It's always amusing how they try to fit Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin into this mold. I've seen many different approaches to this. Then they cherry pick the founding documents and whatever early sources they can find to "prove" that the founding father's wanted this country to be a Christian country -a theocracy. With this "evidence" they can say that all the (cherry picked) negative events in today's news are caused because we have strayed from god. In fact some events, from earthquakes to a recession, are "proof" that god is judging us (though some say it's just a taste of the judgement to come). The solution then becomes clear, "return" to god and things will be hunkey dorey again. They cite the many passages in the Bible where Israel strayed from god, god punished them, Israel repented and god blessed Israel.

With this (very strong belief) they have no problem destroying separation of church and state and forcing the Bible and it's doctrine on everyone. Many of them honestly believe that it's the way to save America. They are on a crusade.