Posted on 11/26/2008 11:56:58 AM PST by montesquiue
Poll is still open so you can vote. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/
Let's send a message LOUD and CLEAR!!
The moonbats should go to Saudi Arabia and try to reomove God from everything there and see what happens.
Headless they woud be mmm hmm hmm hmm. (Yoda).
Who has the ping list for freeping polls?
Bump
8,794,830 responses
18% Yes. It's a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
82% No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion. ---- If it IS a violation, it has been in violation a very long time:
Or is this more of that living interpretation of the Constitution?
Exactly why is this important? Would a lack of proselytizing on currency affect your faith? It was put on our currency so that in a few thousand years when archeologists are digging up our society they'll supposedly see this inscription and know that we weren't "heathen." It was a dumb reason full of hubris. "E Pluribus Unum" describes our country much better anyway.
OTOH, why is it important to Newdow? He may not agree with the inscription (and neither do I), but it has no force, zero actual or potential affect on a citizen whether he believes or not. There is no right or principle being violated. He's probably a leftist who believes in the supposed right to not be offended.
It's all about this petty culture war the fundies on both sides are waging, and I'm getting sick of it.
I wonder if this attention whore atheist would start praying if for some reason he fell into the clutches of a few guys with a blowtorch and some pliers.
Never mind - rhetorical question - nice to ponder though.
Hey, this is exactly what the evoatheists do!
Can’t convince the majority of folks that they’re correct, so they take it to a judge to force it on everyone else.
So the loser makes a federal case (for real), over an issue that in no way affected him. And of course the liberal rat-headed media ate it up.
Prove there is no God ....or go away and mind your own athiest religion business !
It takes a huge leap (of faith, one might say) to read the Establishment Clause not merely as forbidding the creation of a state-sanctioned religious faith but as barring any mention or reference to faith at all. If this were true, why would the Ten Commandments be posted on the wall of the Supreme Court? Why would all court and Executive Branch oaths be taken on... Bibles? Why would our nation's founding documents be replete with references to God? These are inconvenient facts, not irrelevant ones.
The truth is that our country was founded by people of faith, and its Constitution designed to protect the free and public exercise of all faiths rather than to chase such expressions behind closed and private doors so as not to give offense to angry atheists and Pagans.
Yup!
Wouldnt it be interesting to see what the poll results would be if the question was:
Should:
“In God We Trust” be replaced with...
“In Government we Trust”, or simply....
“From Each According to Their Means, to Those According to Their Needs.”
lets just get this thing over with.
the atheists don’t bother me. The “God” on the currency and the Pledge of Allegiance is the Freemason “Supreme Being,” not the God of the Christians. Especially if you believe, as I do, in the Holy Trinity.
I suppose that would put me off the hook to care for these people in God’s way.
I hope Fox News stops calling this nutcase Dr. New-dow and starts calling him Dr. Nude-Oh to show what type of a nutbag he is.
It will be changed to “In BHO We Trust.”
You don’t have to go to Saudi Arabia.
Just look at China, the former USSR, NK, Cambodia,...
There’s plenty of 20th century examples of what a “a”theocracy would do to this country.
No thanks....
Newdow has a FALSE PREMISE that must be constantly rebuffed:
He is the one trying to legislate/ajudicate his will upon the majority. This Nation was founded under a specific paradigm of Liberty. He doe not like our Liberty.
He is a bully and this is how immoral bullies throw their tantrums when they grow older and more clever in their wicked ways.
He must not get his way. The majority of people want things left alone.
The majority of people want judges to punish CRIMINALS, not the majority’s will.
FR does not permit the advocation of violence, so I’ll stay mum on the matter.
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