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Steve 08-01-2002 03:11 PM
christian heratage week
 
More than 40 states passed this, it's a week (oct 13-19) where americans are supposed to celibrate that our predicesors are christian. I'm even more upset that Jesse Ventura passed it on accident (that part's still not understood) and they won't let it be taken back. There are a lot of bad things about Ventura but he does believe in separation of church and state.

Gluk Schmuck 08-01-2002 04:04 PM
Re: christian heratage week
 
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Originally posted by Steve
where americans are supposed to celibrate that our predicesors are christian.
Hehe. That's hillarious. My predecessors were more Christian than your predecessors!

Statikk HDM 08-01-2002 04:52 PM
Yes, weren't the founding Fathers Deists?
I hate this myth that the founders of America were fire breathing protestants running from King George. It just isn't so.
King George only taxed you 1 percent and ran a pretty tight ship. Hell, if he would have just let the people keep their blunderbusses a lot of lives and money could have been saved.
Their is no seperation of church and state. Their can be no state religion. On legal grounds this new week cannot be disputed. On historical grounds it is highly dubious and incorrect. Face it, "we the people" get enough misiformation from shitty schools, passing a totally bogus holiday isn't going to help.

Sydney 08-02-2002 11:50 AM
http://www.progressivethought.net/images/dubya.jpg

SeaRex 08-02-2002 12:05 PM
*rolls on the ground in a fit of laughter*
Oh man... that picture... tee-hee!

Oh, about the topic... erm... why should I care about what religion my "founding fathers" were? Phht... not my problem. I ain't celebrating s**t.

Rex Tirano 08-03-2002 10:02 AM
i don't get it! Why do they make u do stuff that you don't care about! e.g SCHOOL work ect!

Sl'askia 08-03-2002 11:59 AM
I could be just being paranoid...but it sounds to me the current government body is trying to estabish a national religion in a 'round about' way. I hope I am wrong...for that would be unconstantusional(sp).

Gluk Schmuck 08-03-2002 01:20 PM
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Originally posted by Dragadon
I could be just being paranoid...but it sounds to me the current government body is trying to estabish a national religion in a 'round about' way. I hope I am wrong...for that would be unconstantusional(sp).
They've done unconstitutional things before, they'll do it again.

Currency: "In God we trust."
Bush: "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Statikk HDM 08-03-2002 01:26 PM
Well, the government is not trying to institute a quasi Judeo-Christian religion. The currency thing has been on the nickles and dimes for as long as I can remember. But really, aren't there more important things to worry about? If the words were gone tomorrow I couldn't care less. The idea of the christian religion week is pretty preposterous as none of the "founding fathers" were "hard core christians" They were Deists. They thought God made the world and took a big step back. No Christ, or salvation. The divine providence always got me wondering, "How the hell can a deist believe in divine providence?