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To: js1138
Oh...I must have missed something!

I was unaware that it was open for debate among conservatism that Creator God existed.

All this time, the founding fathers' premise/belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by our Creator were mythological in origin?

It could have been, or might have been, Zeus who gave us these rights?

Why doesn't our money state "IN ZEUS WE TRUST"?

Or would that offend your sensibilities and intellectual stature as well?

Is there anything else that you have in common with the ACLU and Mr. Nedow?

197 posted on 08/15/2005 6:25:19 PM PDT by pby
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To: pby

Are you suggesting that reality is shaped by political resolutions?


199 posted on 08/15/2005 6:28:25 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: pby

My conservatism is shaped by my own experience, not by what was said two hundred years ago. I respect the actions of the founding fathers (yes fathers) and I admire the power and poetry of their language, but it does not alter reality.

I have nothing against the belief in a creator God, but I don't know anyone smart enough to know the mind of God in enough detail to lecture me about it.

I believe the people who wrote the Bible did thge best they could to convey their knowledge of God, but they accepted slavery, even codified the rules. They did not know the mind of God.


202 posted on 08/15/2005 6:36:13 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: pby
"I was unaware that it was open for debate among conservatism that Creator God existed.

It is open for debate by any right thinking person.

"All this time, the founding fathers' premise/belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by our Creator were mythological in origin?

Did they specify which creator?

"It could have been, or might have been, Zeus who gave us these rights?

Perhaps it was other humans that gave those rights?

"Why doesn't our money state "IN ZEUS WE TRUST"?

Because America is not ancient Greece. Btw, the founding fathers did not put that on money.

217 posted on 08/15/2005 6:57:04 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: pby; js1138; narby; b_sharp
Why doesn't our money state "IN ZEUS WE TRUST"?

For the same reason it doesn't state "IN JESUS WE TRUST".

305 posted on 08/16/2005 1:17:29 AM PDT by BMCDA
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