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Not a proper analogy (again). The promotion/non-promotion of religion is a 1st Amendment concern.
Not a proper analogy (again). The promotion/non-promotion of religion is a 1st Amendment concern.
Your point? Washington owned slaves too. That was the social norm for the wealthy at the time. I can find plenty of similar quotes from the other founders too. None of them were fundamentalists, they were inspired mainly by the Enlightenment and Age of Reason. Sure most of them believed in a personal god, that was also the social norm for the time, plus the theory of evolution didn't even exist yet.Jefferson and his protégé. A drunk and slave owner and his pupil.
Yeah we shouldn't listen to the author of the Declaration of Independance just because he wasn't a fundamentalist like yourself. But we should listen to you vs. Jefferson? That's rich.We should definitely listen to them.
I like how you make it your place to attack the character of one of our Founders just because he doesn't share your religious views.When it came to political thinking he was good, as a man, not so much.
Your point? Washington owned slaves too. That was the social norm for the wealthy at the time. I can find plenty of similar quotes from the other founders too. None of them were fundamentalists, they were inspired mainly by the Enlightenment and Age of Reason. Sure most of them believed in a personal god, that was also the social norm for the time, plus the theory of evolution didn't even exist yet.
Yeah we shouldn't listen to the author of the Declaration of Independance just because he wasn't a fundamentalist like yourself. But we should listen to you vs. Jefferson? That's rich.
I like how you make it your place to attack the character of one of our Founders just because he doesn't share your religious views.
The the promotion/non-promotion of slavary is a 14th amendment issue.
It is a settled issue.
Many mis- interpret the Constitution, in fact probably along the same lines as do the scriptures.
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As is the 1st Amendment, though you seem to be unaware of that fact.
Offering an elective on the cultural impact of the bible does not violate the 1st.
If you can perhaps provide hard evidence that such a class establishes a national religion or gives a church (name names) municipal power, then and only then will I be willing to reconsider my position.
Until you can provide actual proof, however, you may as well be arguing against evolution.
One other response to you.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote a book coined 'The Jefferson Bible.' He called it The Life And Times Of Jesus Christ, if I remember right.
In this book, Jefferson re-wrote the story of Jesus, omitting all reference to divinity and the performing of miracles. So, in his book, Jesus was a good man with an admirable philosophy, but not the son of God.
Would any Christian you know or have ever known have done this editing to the story of Jesus?
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Good.
Also, good. It is true in many areas.
Heaven forbid that we actually teach what the influences of our Founding Fathers were...
Heaven forbid that we teach students what the government of the US REALLY is...
Heaven forbid we actually teach some BASIC economic understanding...
Well, duhh...
He didn't believe that Jesus was God. I don't know whether he believe in "a god" or not, but he didn't believe that Jesus was the Son of God, so in the modern conservative sense, he wasn't a Christian.You are more than welcome to prove your assertions exactly as you made them. Please prove that he wrote his Bible to show that God does not exist.
You are more than welcome to prove your assertions exactly as you made them. Please prove that he wrote his Bible to show that God does not exist.
I hope you were sarcastic..
This is scary..
The big problem with teaching OPINIONS in schools
IS THAT IS OPINIONS
Opinions == not facts
Not facts being tought == misinformation
Misinformation == progogadna
Propoganda == **** this I am leaving this ****ed up nation..
I cant even post a proper resoponce I am so angry..
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