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To: a fool in paradise

If folks like this person had left God in schools our country wouldn’t be in as bad a shape as it is. It’a OK to add other religions and embrace other cultures, but it’s bad to add the religion this country was based upon? I’ll keep Texas thank you very much and you stay up wherever you are and put a lid on it!


151 posted on 06/15/2010 7:27:12 PM PDT by girlscout (Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?)
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To: girlscout

What the lib doesn’t recognize is that our founding fathers WERE divinely inspired. This does not mean that they were “doing God’s work because He personally appeared to them and said “make this land”.

They sought to HONOR God’s dominion. They sought to limit the powers of government.

They had seen Europe’s systemic religious intolerance (literally some principalities required the public to shift from Catholicism to Protestantism to Catholicism as the current monarch decreed).

They believed that Man has a freedom of religion (to follow the faith of his choice) without discrimination under the law (Islamic Law imposes a tax on Chrisitians and Jews and treats non-muslims differently under the law, considers them subhuman and not deserving of the same rights or protections under the law).

They also believed that there were other INALIENABLE rights that Man possesses and again that are protected from imposition by Man’s governance. Among those are a freedom of speech to criticize the government (there are examples of speech that is not protected including perjury, slander, libel, treason, espionage, and inciting a riot). Also a right to bear arms. And so forth.

Some people originally settled this land to escape religious persecution. To omit this from discussion of what makes America different from other nations is to rewrite history.

She needs to get off her high horse and go read up on American history some more. Been a long time since she was schooled.


154 posted on 06/16/2010 7:43:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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