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Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm
(December 15, 2009 at 10:57 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/200.../912080327

A state councilman is an atheist and now people are trying to remove him based on a clause in North Carolina's law that states you cannot hold office and deny the existence of God.

Then nobody can hold office. Everyone denies the existence of God... except for those nobel few who truly understand the Flying Spaghetti Monster Smile
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm
The original text of the constitution actually specifies the Protestant church, and the old and new testaments, which must be held as divine.
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm
(December 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm)Meatball Wrote: The original text of the constitution actually specifies the Protestant church, and the old and new testaments, which must be held as divine.

Which means there is no religious freedom... only freedom to practice protestant Christianity?
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Couldn't this guy just argue that he doesn't deny the existence of God, he just doesn't believe in the existence of God...a subtle but important difference.
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 4:45 pm
(December 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm)Saerules Wrote:
(December 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm)Meatball Wrote: The original text of the constitution actually specifies the Protestant church, and the old and new testaments, which must be held as divine.

Which means there is no religious freedom... only freedom to practice protestant Christianity?
Yeah, it's hilarious.
NC Constitution] Wrote:XIX That all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.

XXXII That no person, who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.

Funny. No explicit right not to worship.
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 5:57 pm
So basically if you deny the existence of god and the truth of the protestant religion you are deemed incapable of holding any office. That is disgusting!
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I wonder what the pope would say about it... Tongue
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 6:41 pm
That was the original 1776 version. It's been trimmed down to only to say you can't deny the existence of the Almighty God now.
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Which leaves open to the interpretation of precisely which almighty god... now doesn't it? Smile
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RE: Atheist Controversy in North Carolina
December 15, 2009 at 7:34 pm
(December 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm)Saerules Wrote:
(December 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm)Meatball Wrote: The original text of the constitution actually specifies the Protestant church, and the old and new testaments, which must be held as divine.

Which means there is no religious freedom... only freedom to practice protestant Christianity?

..and to have no choice is to have no choice to believe... because belief has to be a choice. It's anti Christ.
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