Well, aren't you special. Not only a self-righteous newbie, but a condescending one as well. Rather odd for one parroting the blatantly false revisionism of the "Christian nation" crowd.
Once more a final chance for furthering your education: www.americanchristianhistory.com. Take the opportunity! It won't hurt a bit!
I suppose swallowing whole the phony "history" at that site can be painless, if you are so inclined, but most of the folks at this site prefer their history unadulterated.
After all the truth will set you free, and should YOU decide to learn the truth, you might just learn there really IS a God! You might find you simply LOVE Jesus! You DESERVE the truth!
So you presume that I am not a Christian? As I warned you in an earlier post, you may want to do a little reading around here before launching into your banal little lectures.
I know it's hard to believe, but there are a great many conservative Christians on this site who disagree with the clap-trap you're peddling (clap-trap that has been well hashed over here and thoroughly debunked in the past). It's never wise to presume that you are personally the very embodiment of Christianity, not the least because it demonstrates a very un-Christian level of hubris.
No, MOST were Christian, and the so-called "deists", as the site says, like Benjamin Franklin, believed in the Bible.
Please. Read something other than the cereal-box "history" touted on the Christian Nation websites.
It's so sad that the ACLU can't seem to understand this message and continues to be so insecure that they feel threatened by Christians freely practicing their faith in public and feel an overwhelming need to BAN BAN BAN nativity scenes, santa [?] and so forth!
This is all about the deterioration and outright war on Christian heritage and culture from the left.
So what you're telling me is that someone is stopping you from:
-- practicing your faith;
-- going to the Church of your choice;
-- listening to and watching any of the ubiquitous dedicated Christian radio, television, and internet sites that broadcast free from any interference;
-- going to any of the hundreds of dedicated Christian bookstores available;
-- reading any of the hundreds of dedicated Christian magazines and books available in the marketplace;
-- personally speaking about your religious faith on street-corners, in the public square, or in your campaign for public office (heck, it has become virtually mandatory that you announce your religious piety to get elected to office in this country);
-- giving your money to any of the thousands of Churches, Christian charities, or Christian advocacy groups of your choice;
-- etc., etc., etc.
No? I didn't think so.
But none of that is what you're really interested in, is it. You don't have much interest in personally practicing your faith. What you want is for everybody else to practice your faith. And for the infidels who refuse to do so, you want them to pay homage to you and your faith.
You want to appropriate public buildings and property to erect monuments to your particular brand of Christianity (which apparently includes the worship of Santa Clause, a sect I'm not familiar with).
You want to make it law that everybody bow down to your alters and to your monuments, and that everybody listen without dissent to what you have to say. And by golly, if folks aren't cow-towing to you and your whims, then that-there is stone-cold evidence of persecution!
Sorry, bub, but the public square is for everybody. Speak your mind there, but construct your monuments on your own property.
And knock it off with the embarrassing and juvenile claims of persecution. You're no more persecuted than your average spoiled five-year-old griping about the size of his Christmas morning haul.
Atlaw...your post #282 to 'tpanther', deserves thunderous applause...I just read through this whole thread just now, and you have single handedly demolished all the nonsense that 'tpanther' has been spouting...
I especially liked the touch, of ennumerating all of the things that obviously have NEVER happened to tpanther, which would enable him to correctly scream 'persecution'...
Why is it, when folks really are not being persecuted in any meaningful way, they have to make things up?...I heard one lady once say she was being 'persecuted' because she wished a 'Merry Christmas' to someone in the store, and they gave her a 'dirty look'...oh brother, someone giving you a dirty look is persecution?
Can someone say 'Drama Queen'?
Anyway, atlaw, just wanted to congratulate you on seeing clear through tpanthers ridiculous posts, and setting him straight...you did one fantastic job...