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To: donh
>> That is because evolution is a scientific theory, which is allowed in government schools, whereas christianity is a religeous othodoxy, which is forbidden in government schools, for the very good reason that our founding fathers did not want to go back to the days when your religeous beliefs could get you garroted, quartered, or burned at the stake.

You obviously have no clue what the founding fathers wanted. Any attempt to explain away 150 years of teaching Christianity in public schools will make you sound as ignorant (or as deceitful) as those who argue that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a collective right. I suggest you discard your left-wing revisionist history and research the original intent of the founding fathers, in particular their intent toward religion.

373 posted on 02/15/2004 6:49:15 PM PST by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau
You obviously have no clue what the founding fathers wanted. Any attempt to explain away 150 years of teaching Christianity in public schools will make you sound as ignorant (or as deceitful) as those who argue that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a collective right.

It was the civil war that pushed federal rights down on the states. You may not like this, but whether you do or not, it explains why the feds did not interfere with schools being run by state or local governments which "explains away" rather neatly your "150 years". To pretend that the founders had no strong notions of denuding churches of the power to be authorized state religions, in even the most trivial matters, is to fly in the face of the evidence of the 1st amendment and the writings of Jefferson, Adams, and Madison.

I suggest you discard your left-wing revisionist history and research the original intent of the founding fathers, in particular their intent toward religion.

I suggest you do the same, and I suggest you look at the actual documents, such as the Bill of Rights, or the Federalist Papers, or the correspondences of the two main culprits--Madison and Jefferson, rather than at some half-baked creationist web-site pulling quotes from Washington's barber's second cousin.

376 posted on 02/15/2004 7:59:44 PM PST by donh
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