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RE: Damned Christians
August 17, 2022 at 4:07 pm
(August 17, 2022 at 12:23 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: An absurd Texas state law says that if someone donates a sign to a school that says “In God we trust,” the school has to display them.
Quote:Signs saying "In God We Trust" will now hang in Carroll ISD schools after being donated by a locally-owned wireless provider.
Patriot Mobile, which labels itself a Christian conservative wireless provider, donated the signs to the Carroll Independent School District and they will now be hung in CISD schools.
According to a state law passed in 2021, schools are required to display signs or posters bearing the national motto in a conspicuous place provided that the signs were donated to the school or bought with private donations.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/in-god...s/3049723/
Problem solved. "In god we trust" is not the national motto. That honour belongs to E Pluribus Unum.
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RE: Damned Christians
August 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm
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Riiight> I had to look that up, I thought I was going crazy......
So, who wants to place bets one whether the texas lege actually wants to amplify, by force of law..... "from many, one"...........?
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RE: Damned Christians
August 18, 2022 at 7:55 am
(August 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Riiight> I had to look that up, I thought I was going crazy......
So, who wants to place bets one whether the texas lege actually wants to amplify, by force of law..... "from many, one"...........?
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RE: Damned Christians
August 18, 2022 at 9:47 am
So, secularists should donate E Pluribus Unum signs to Texas public schools and they'll HAVE to display them.
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August 18, 2022 at 9:50 am
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Nope, looks like the nuts have it this time, officially, our motto actually is in god we trust. Eisenhower, 1956.
So much for the founders.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Damned Christians
August 18, 2022 at 9:58 am
If E Pluribus Unum was never made NOT the motto of the USA, doesn't that make us a dual-motto country? We added a motto but did not officially reject the old one. It's still on the back of the dime in my pocket and on the Great Seal of the United States.
I'm not even a country lawyer, but I question whether there's a strong case that E Pluribus Unum isn't still one of the official mottos of the USA.
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RE: Damned Christians
August 18, 2022 at 10:14 pm
During a recent sermon, a Missouri pastor called members of his congregation ‘poor, broke, [&] busted’ for failing to purchase a luxury Movado watch for him.
https://nowthisnews.com/news/pastor-bera...xury-watch
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 25, 2022 at 4:04 pm
Hypocrisy of Christian nationalism on display as GOP ignores Bible in its panic over student loans: columnists
The Republican outrage over President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief has exposed the hypocrisy of Christian nationalism, according to a new analysis by Time magazine.
"While President Biden’s announcement of student-debt forgiveness elicited shouts of joy from many of the 43 million Americans who could experience relief under his plan, Republicans have responded by declaring their opposition to the very idea of debt forgiveness," Bishop William Barber, Jr. and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wrote in Time.
https://www.rawstory.com/student-loan-forgiveness/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
August 25, 2022 at 4:16 pm
It'll be pretty easy to whip up angst. We missed the mortgage bailout because we did the right thing and sold property to cover others. We'll miss the student debt relief because, here again, we already payed it off.
Still, I think it's good to know that at least some people are getting relief. When we finally get around to comprehensive universal ed (or, anything, really) there'll be a whole generation that won't be able to help but feel a bit shafted - just by time and circumstance, lol.
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RE: Damned Christians
September 23, 2022 at 1:29 am
Day of trauma': Students told they were going to career fair taken to 'anti-LGBT church service' instead
According to Baton Rouge-based newspaper The Advocate, over 2,100 students from local high schools in the East Baton Rouge Parish school system were told that they were participating in a districtwide 'College & Career Fair.' However, when they arrived at their destination, the students, most of whom were seniors, discovered that they had been dropped off at an event called 'Day of Hope' at the Living Faith Christian Center.
According to reports, many of the students came away from this event feeling traumatized, as the 'Day of Hope' was centered on a number of sexually charged, anti-LGBT issues. This reportedly included separating the kids by male and female, and forcing male and female-transgender students to participate in discussions with the opposite sex. Additionally, one parent said that a number of transgender students were bullied during the event.
“They talked about rape (and) forgiving the offender, suicide, prayer leadership, and many more dark controversial topics. We had females in the bathrooms crying due to the topics of discussion."
Another parent wrote on Facebook, “DAY OF HOPE? More like day of trauma. You prayed over my child, told her that she should remain abstinent, talked to her about suicide, and told her that if she’s being abused in a domestic violence situation that she should forgive her abuser even if he’s not sorry.”
https://www.rawstory.com/students-told-t...e-instead/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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