"America was not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"


	"America was not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

melizer

10-15-2007 5:32 PM

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10-16-2007 10:49 AM

AcesLucky

religious liberty for all was established.

Sadly, some are trying to take away our freedoms by establishing religion in government.

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freethinkers are, I suspect, sometimes suckers for the big lie that the U.S. really was 
founded as a Christian nation. We've heard it so often that we tend to doubt our allies 
who dispute it as maybe just over-zealous, over-eager, well-intentioned-but-wrong 
atheists out to prove what they want to believe rather than to understand the truth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html">But 
careful research into the facts, accompanied by honest presentation of those facts, 
leads to important support for the thesis that the Constitutional framers intended this 
nation to have a government strictly neutral regarding religion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html">From our perspective these men may be heroes, but in truth the vote 
they cast was ordinary, routine, normal. It was, in other words, quite well accepted,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html">that "the Government of the United States of America was not, in any sense, 
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