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To: Balding_Eagle

The US constitution has no such proclamation about Judeo-Christian exclusivity. Actually it is just the reverse. The constitution expressly forbids a national religion. The only countries in this world which proclaim a nationally dominant religion are Muslim countries and they expressly give preference to Muslims. Please do not tell me you want to follow that route.


17 posted on 03/02/2015 9:11:12 PM PST by entropy12 (Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
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To: entropy12; Impy

It didn’t state it in the Constitution because it was pretty well universally understood that the nation was Judeo-Christian (much as it would’ve been patently ludicrous to have to declare that marriage was between a man and a woman). No doubt had the Founding Fathers known that attempts to undermine such notions 200 years hence would’ve resulted in it being made plain.

What most people don’t understand is that the Constitution did not wish to have an official national religion, but not as in Christianity, but as in specific sects of Christianity (which they left explicitly to the states, many of which declared official state Christian religious sects). They did not want to follow the route of European monarchies where the President would serve as a head of the church. That’s the true and sole definition of the abused declaration of so-called “separation” (which has been willfully misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and other entities for far too long).

In any event, I can see being tolerant enough to permit a Hindu prayer at this opening session. I don’t believe they’re seeking to overthrow the country or the Constitution as a certain other group is attempting every day of the week (and indeed, Hindus are just as imperiled by the Mohammadans reign of terror as every other religious sect, so even if we as Christians don’t agree on dogma/doctrine, et al, they’re still brothers and sisters in arms against evil).

No one is asking the Senator to accept or subscribe to said prayers, but I think he’s making too big a deal of it. If he finds it violates his principles, he can either sit quietly or stand outside the chamber. He’s acting more like the atheists with school prayers: because one person objects, rather than quietly not participate, he tries to shut the whole thing down.


19 posted on 03/02/2015 10:00:33 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: entropy12

Read a bit of history on your own and don’t believe the leftist claptrap that fills the books and the “narrative” these days.

The Founding Fathers were devout CHRISTIANS. Even those who called themselves “Deists” (which was nothing more than the PC term of the day that they used to bridge the gap between Catholic and Protestant, which was the basis of religious hostilities back then) were devout adherents of specific church denominations. Thomas Jefferson was a “Deist” who went to a baptist church without fail.


32 posted on 03/12/2015 6:17:15 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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