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"The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Jefferson wasn't an atheist. When did you ever hear someone trying to tell you that, Drich?
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 2:49 pm
@Drippy
I quote the bible all the time but it doesn't mean I believe that godsdamned stupid shit.
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 4:42 pm (This post was last modified: January 22, 2014 at 4:43 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(January 22, 2014 at 2:03 pm)Drich Wrote:
(January 22, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Luckie Wrote: Wham bam, thank you Madame Big Grin

haven't you guys learned not to count your chicken before the hatch?

Irony, much? I dare you to find a weaker support for your contention. The only thing Congress endorsed for that Bible was that it was an accurate copy of the Bible. That prayer wasn't Jefferson's, but if it were, it wouldn't make the USA any more founded on Christianity.

We LOVE documents like those.
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 4:54 pm
(January 22, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
(January 22, 2014 at 2:03 pm)Drich Wrote: haven't you guys learned not to count your chicken before the hatch?

Irony, much? I dare you to find a weaker support for your contention. The only thing Congress endorsed for that Bible was that it was an accurate copy of the Bible. That prayer wasn't Jefferson's, but if it were, it wouldn't make the USA any more founded on Christianity.

We LOVE documents like those.

And even if it was founded by christians (most of the founding father were)It doesn't matter as they all endorsed and up held seperation of church and state, a value found no where in the bible.
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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#25
RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Quote:The only thing Congress endorsed for that Bible was that it was an accurate copy of the Bible.

Which...when you think of it...means exactly shit. I can copy my phone bill, too. So what?

Meanwhile....let's not let our resident asshole off the hook with Lincoln, either.

Quote:My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
-- Abraham Lincoln, to Judge J S Wakefield,
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#26
RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Drich, upon which Judeo-Christian values, in your estimation, were the United States founded?
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 5:35 pm
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 5:39 pm
(January 22, 2014 at 2:03 pm)Drich Wrote:
(January 22, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Luckie Wrote: Wham bam, thank you Madame Big Grin

haven't you guys learned not to count your chicken before the hatch?

At least my chicken eggs exist Thinking
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

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Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

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I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
January 22, 2014 at 6:31 pm
(January 20, 2014 at 1:34 am)Boris Karloff Wrote: The United States is a Christian-founded nation....


Even if true, so what? Humans grow and advance. Homo Sapiens are a cannibal-founded species, we grew out of it.
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RE: "The United States is a Christian-founded nation"
February 7, 2014 at 9:26 am (This post was last modified: February 7, 2014 at 9:30 am by A Theist.)
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