Posted on 12/09/2015 4:00:31 AM PST by Biggirl
Every American believes his country should be Christian. For half of the population, this means the public display of Christian symbols, laws promoting those Christian teachings that don’t encumber the wealthy, and politicians who profess the Christian faith. These people understand Christianity as a set of definite beliefs tied to churches and opposed to secularism.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstthings.com ...
Yet thanks to Trump and also to Cruz, they are being exposed, the socialists for who they are.
“Our founding fathers had a very good reason to separate church from state in our founding documents.”
Our Founders acknowledged Christianity when they wrote the Constitution and dated it “in the year of our Lord”. Christianity was so much the warp and woof of their thoughts and the nation’s thoughts that it was taken for granted. It did not need to be spelled out.
Huh? Stopped reading right there. Why do you post this crap?
I suppose he could've been talking about Muslims too, but if I had to guess I'd say not.
And other FRpers have posted WORSE.
Horse hockey! St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas both wrote about a just war. We can be good Christians AND good soldiers (render unto Caesar). Just wars may be fought to prevent atrocities or to avoid undesirable outcomes. Both of these conditions exist today.
Self defense (for after all, this is why we don’t Mohammedans here) is not a crime nor a sin.
More BS.
Indeed.
Fortunately, the author was kind enough to keep it short.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
-Thomas Jefferson letter to To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and Others, A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in the State of Connecticut dated January 1, 1802
I found that, of all places, on your profile page. I take it you haven't updated it in a while.
Every American believes his country should be Christian.
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Even our Jewish citizens? What?
Sorry, this Christian could not get past that first sentence to read the rest of the piece.
well said...these whackos get in every once in awhile.
LOL! Funny how this guy considers himself "typical" when recent polls show over 75% of folks agreeing with Trump....
Huh?
Thank you. Whenever big posts a lazy, sloppy excerpt, I always read ahead to the comments before I click the link.
I and many others have asked - even pleaded - with her to quit click-baiting, blog pimping, trolling and posting way too little info, but she won’t.
Especially Breitbart articles with its spam and popups.
“Danbury Baptist Association”
Exactly. It’s in a letter to a church, ensuring that the state would not interfere with the church.
But it’s not in any founding documents. And it’s not about keeping religious people out of politics (as too many in our nation believe).
Too many people think “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution or DoC. But it’s not.
You probably didn’t notice that that was part of an article posted by
New preamble to the constitution
The following has been attributed
to Lewis Napper, a Jackson, Mississippi computer programmer.
That was not my writing and it was included within the article I posted there that contained 11 sections...the last was that and credit was given to the original author of that piece.
Get your facts straight.
A suicide note from the Church of Nice.
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