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[Al Arabiya] Fundamentalists challenge wall between church and state
Al Arabiya ^ | July 10, 2011 | Nathaniel Sheppard Jr.

Posted on 07/10/2011 2:59:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 07/10/2011 2:59:24 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You forgot the barf warning.


2 posted on 07/10/2011 3:03:12 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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The American Left — you can’t read it more clearly than this.


3 posted on 07/10/2011 3:06:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That’s three minutes I won’t get back.

No evidence at all provided that anybody is challenging any wall between church and state.

Let’s all ignore that the establishment of this wall by the Founders (at least in the sense meant by the author) is itself mythical.

I’ve been listening to a book on CD that is a bio of Lincoln. The language of politicians of his day would blow this guy’s mind.


4 posted on 07/10/2011 3:08:12 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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“In the early days of America’s nascent republic, the founding fathers envisioned a secular government with a wall of separation between the affairs of church and those of the state. “

Wrong in the very first sentence.


5 posted on 07/10/2011 3:14:01 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Sherman Logan

The Left has twisted this to turn Americans against the belief that faith underpins this country.

They want government to be our lord and master.

They’ve pushed this idea of separation of church and state, meaning there should be no talk of faith and government (not the true meaning of “not to establish a religion), in public schools for generations.


6 posted on 07/10/2011 3:14:59 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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The Leftwingtards all fear the Catholic church because it condemns their pederasty, and they fear the Holyrollers even more because they figured out how to get out the vote for the Republicans.

For whatever reason the Leftwingtards don't fear the Moslems yet .................. well, back to the pederasty part!

7 posted on 07/10/2011 3:15:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
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This is the religion the Left and the Middle East want to establish for America:

Not, God bless America.

God damn America!

8 posted on 07/10/2011 3:24:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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I pray that someday soon all the Christians will be gone from this world, so the liberals and muslims can live together in peace and harmony.


9 posted on 07/10/2011 3:24:17 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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....so the liberals and muslims can live together in peace and harmony.

Well, they'll cross that bridge when they come to it, for now they're at the, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" stage.

10 posted on 07/10/2011 3:26:55 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DonaldC

Wrong in the very first sentence.


Yes. I quit reading at that point.


11 posted on 07/10/2011 3:32:02 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are not governed. We are occupied.)
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Yes. I quit reading at that point.

You should really go further into the article and read what the Left and the Middle East paper think about our GOP primary candidates.

12 posted on 07/10/2011 3:34:35 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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“The Leftwingtards all fear the Catholic church because it condemns their pederasty,”

In fact or in principle. Church and State is a dangerous argument because what is good for the goose is good for the gander under our Constitution. There are much better arguments to use against Muslims in light of the last decades.


13 posted on 07/10/2011 3:36:13 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...My theory is, college student body presidents become DEMS or RINO's.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

The author's implication is that we should establish such a religious Test and keep anybody who is openly Christian (of the conservative variety, anyway) from office.

14 posted on 07/10/2011 3:37:35 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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The fact someone is a Moslem means he believes in forced conversion of others.

That is all the reason you need to evict them and keep them out.

15 posted on 07/10/2011 3:45:12 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

On your recommendation I will.


16 posted on 07/10/2011 3:45:39 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are not governed. We are occupied.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh, the irony.


17 posted on 07/10/2011 3:49:32 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
They’ve pushed this idea of separation of church and state, meaning there should be no talk of faith and government (not the true meaning of “not to establish a religion), in public schools for generations.

I'm still trying to part in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to have any involvement whatsoever in public education.

P.S.:

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top”, which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,” which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,” which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by America 2000,” which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk, which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter fixed the nation’s public school system by first establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

18 posted on 07/10/2011 3:53:38 PM PDT by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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To: RichInOC
Oh, the irony.

And the dim don't see it.

19 posted on 07/10/2011 3:53:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Maceman

GRRRRRR.....makes me crazy!


20 posted on 07/10/2011 3:55:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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