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To: Tailgunner Joe
There's not a single thing about Christianity in our legally binding "founding documents," meaning the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. That's by design. By culture we are Christian, by government we are a non-sectarian nation. Anyone who tries to persuade us otherwise is revising history with a particular agenda. If our government is changed to represent Christians more than other groups, it will no longer represent all Americans equally. That would be a grave mistake and the beginning of the end of true American religious liberty. In fact, a free republic depends first on freedom of religion and freedom of speech, which is why both appear in the first amendment.
4 posted on 08/29/2004 11:40:32 AM PDT by risk
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To: risk
There's not a single thing about Christianity in our legally binding "founding documents," meaning the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. That's by design. By culture we are Christian, by government we are a non-sectarian nation. Anyone who tries to persuade us otherwise is revising history with a particular agenda. If our government is changed to represent Christians more than other groups, it will no longer represent all Americans equally. That would be a grave mistake and the beginning of the end of true American religious liberty. In fact, a free republic depends first on freedom of religion and freedom of speech, which is why both appear in the first amendment.

The ACLU will be proud of you. You revised history to fit your secular agenda. For example, the "First Amendment" was not really the first. It was the third, and then after combining several articles. It became the "first" by default when the original first and second amendments failed ratification by the states. Sorry to burst your bubble, but all 10 of the Bill of Rights were considered equally important.

You wrote, "By culture we are Christian, by government we are a non-sectarian nation. Anyone who tries to persuade us otherwise is revising history with a particular agenda.

The truth is that prior to the usurpation by the ACLU-influenced, Hugo Black supreme court of 1947 the states had power over religion (from the 10th Amendment), and many allowed Christianity to be taught and nourished in public schools.

You wrote, If our government is changed to represent Christians more than other groups, it will no longer represent all Americans equally. That would be a grave mistake and the beginning of the end of true American religious liberty.

Our grave mistake was allowing that communist front group, the ACLU, have a voice in public policy. It has brainwashed too many naive Americans, including you.

6 posted on 08/29/2004 11:55:36 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: risk

To represent all religions equally would doom this country to secularism. If you truely feared the LORD, you would acknowledge the neccessity for Protestant doctrine in this country's legal system. Otherwise, you open the floodgates to homosexuality, prostitution, paganism, darwinism, satanism, etc.


7 posted on 08/29/2004 12:05:54 PM PDT by AmericanFaith
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To: risk
There's not a single thing about Christianity

Actually, there is

19 posted on 08/29/2004 5:22:28 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: risk
In fact, a free republic depends first on freedom of religion and freedom of speech, which is why both appear in the first amendment.

I disagree with this, Risk. A free republic depends first on those who comprise the republic having the ability to defend their rights, with arms if necessary. The 2nd Amendment guarantees us the ability to throw off any tyrannical trampling of the remaining amendments.

As a Christian, I shudder to think of the type of Christianity that our government, who can't effectively distribute free cheese, would mandate. That said, many of our nation's founders were Christians, and yet understood mankind's inherent free will, and left a citizen's spirituality up to his or her own choosing. I believe they did this on purpose.

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are IMO the greatest rights enumerated, but if they can't be defended and guaranteed by the RKBA, they're definitely marginalized to they tyrannist's speech and religion.

73 posted on 08/29/2004 9:11:46 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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