Panel Rules Justice Moore Failed to Respect & Comply with Law; Judge removed from Supreme Court

[Grando Calrissian]

Good idea. I've just been mailing my checks to God (minus a small handling fee) to his auxiliary office in Las Vegas.

[Modernman]

Those who don't aren't Christian, period. How can a Christian sin repeatedly and still claim to live in Godlines?

You're still relying on the No True Scotsman argument- you get to excommunicate any Christian whose actions you don't like. What about entire Christian nations that revelled in Inquisitions, pogroms etc. under the approval of the Pope? (who was the final arbiter of Christianity at the time).

[concerned about politics]

But how can this be? Aren't Christians the most reviled, persecuted group in the country?

Rebellion can sometimes be a good thing.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

LOL - I even had some schools in mind.

[TrueBeliever9]

Jimmy Buffet is a member of a church that was started in the USA!

[WackyKat]

Aren't Christians the most reviled, persecuted group in the country? How can they possibly put monuments in government buildings? How can they stop the sale of alcohol on their holy day? How can they elect one of their own to be the President of the United States?

How could they put Reverend Ike, Robert Tilton and Gene Scott on television?

[Grando Calrissian]

Generally speaking, I trust no Christian denomination that was started in the United States- especially if the religion involves the handling of snakes.

Then you definitely won't like my church.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Thats interesting. He talks in his books about being brought up Roman Catholic, and doesn't really claim an affiliation beyond that.

[george wythe]

Interesting quote from Congressman Bingham. I have not read it before, thank you.

[huck von finn]

Drag.

[Sonnyw]

You have terribly misstated Justice Souter's concurring opinion in Lee v. Weisman. Readers of this post should read the document for themselves, which can be found here: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=505&page=577

[Modernman]

Then you definitely won't like my church.

Well, if it's like the church in Conan the Barbarian which worships the giant snake, has orgies and James Earl Jones is the high priest, we can talk.

"Five years ago they were just another snake cult..."

[concerned about politics]

You're still relying on the No True Scotsman argument- you get to excommunicate any Christian whose actions you don't like. What about entire Christian nations that revelled in Inquisitions, pogroms etc. under the approval of the Pope? (who was the final arbiter of Christianity at the time).

I'm not Catholic. I'm Baptist, but support the Salvation Army. I looked for a church that's the same as the church of Philidelphia (The Church Christ chose to reward the most) in the book of Revelations. It's a poor missionary church. They get things freely through free will, and give things freely through free will , and do not want the government, nor PC, involved in their good deeds. They're ruled by a higher power.

[lugsoul]

Whoops. Must've left off that sarcasm tag. Didn't think most folks here would need it.

Have you ever even been to Alabama? I can assure you that Christianity is far from supressed in that state. And that you can see Scripture quotes right out in public within a mile in any direction from the Judicial Building. At the high school I attended they still have prayers at the football games over the P.A.

Take notice that the good folk of Alabama are not exactly storming the barricades. They know a huckster when they see one.

[Grando Calrissian]

Public schools. God is the enemy.

Indeed. In my elementary school, we weren't allowed to use a lower-case "t" in our writings due to its similarity to the Cross of Christianity. On the positive side, I learned many words without the letter "t".

[lugsoul]

Question for Jan Crouch - if we are "in his image," why do you work so hard to cover it with all that pink sh**?

[Paleo Conservative]

The Christians were in the North at that time - Pilgrims and puritans - no slaves there!

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There were some Christians who believed that slavery was God's will - it was a blind spot for some of them in the South,

Quite a few northern states especilly New York had large numbers of slaves.

The slaves didn't didn't swim here, and southerners weren't known for their seemanship in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the Africans brought to the colonies and later the United States as slaves were brought by yankees. It wasn't till 1808 that Congress outlawed the Afrian slave trade to the US. The yankees sea captains didn't stop shipping contraband; they just switched to different contraband. They started shipping opium to China.

[Grando Calrissian]

Church of Buffett, Orthodox

[dmz]

None of that amounts to persecution.

[Grando Calrissian]

It's more like the church in Dragnet. People Against Goodness And Normalcy.