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Treaty of Tripoli?
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Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 3:19 pm
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 3:44 pm
That statement is a bit out of date now. We're enough of a Christian nation that someone can run on theocracy and not get immediately kicked out, and we're led to believe that sharia is the worst thing in the world, despite sharing many similar ideas with christianity.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Human immolation, vivisection, amputation, decapitation . . .

The christers hostility stems from jealousy methinks.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 3:48 pm
They yearn for the good old days when they were allowed to do that. W've still got people who want to round up all the gays and kill them, but they're considered the crazies now. Not the reasonable authority figures.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 4:08 pm
If you're referring to the "the USA was founded as a Christian nation", every time the treaty of Tripoli is brought up, they just hand wave it away.

So, business as usual.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 4:49 pm
(March 5, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Chad32 Wrote: We're enough of a Christian nation that someone can run on theocracy and not get immediately kicked out ...

In fact, it is pretty much mandatory.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 4:50 pm
(March 5, 2016 at 4:08 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: If you're referring to the "the USA was founded as a Christian nation", every time the treaty of Tripoli is brought up, they just hand wave it away.

So, business as usual.

In Texas they tried to write Thomas Jefferson out of the history books.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 4:56 pm
I heard about that. It would be bad enough without the fact that Texas decides what goes into the textbooks of other states.
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 6:25 pm
(March 5, 2016 at 4:56 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I heard about that. It would be bad enough without the fact that Texas decides what goes into the textbooks of other states.

Well, good news then. With "print on demand" the influence of Texas has dropped severely. School districts can pick and choose which chapters go into a text book, or even which sections of chapters get included. (This was obliquely referenced in the movie "Interstellar".
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RE: Treaty of Tripoli?
March 5, 2016 at 6:28 pm
(March 5, 2016 at 6:25 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:
(March 5, 2016 at 4:56 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I heard about that. It would be bad enough without the fact that Texas decides what goes into the textbooks of other states.

Well, good news then. With "print on demand" the influence of Texas has dropped severely. School districts can pick and choose which chapters go into a text book, or even which sections of chapters get included. (This was obliquely referenced in the movie "Interstellar".

That's nice to hear.
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