Comment Re:U.S. is established on religion, so (Score 1) 900
Not entirely accurate. The right-wing christian theocrats always assert that same bull. The fact is that our founders were mostly secular deists, and as such did not found this nation on "christian" values. Note the distinct lack of the words "Jesus", "God", "Lord", "Savior", and "Bible" or any reference to them in our founding documents? As a matter of fact, the only such "religious", or "spiritual" reference is to a "creator". Any serious Constitutional scholar can tell you that it's a reference to the Secular Deist concept of god, and not the "christian" ideal so commonly misassociated with that word.
I mean really, we'd just liberated ourselves from one of the most oppressive theocratic empires the world has ever known. With that in mind, what makes you or anyone else think that the first thing we did afterward was seek to establish a theocracy here?
-Oz
I mean really, we'd just liberated ourselves from one of the most oppressive theocratic empires the world has ever known. With that in mind, what makes you or anyone else think that the first thing we did afterward was seek to establish a theocracy here?
-Oz