Beware of the Christian Right

[Cecilie1200]

Got news for ya - the ones who wrote the Constitution were Christians.

Some of them- not all. Some of them considered themselves "deists", but not Christian. A couple of them were reportedly atheist.

So people keep telling us, but not one of them can ever prove it. They just "heard" it somewhere, so it must be true.

 

[lizzie]

Got news for ya - the ones who wrote the Constitution were Christians.

Some of them- not all. Some of them considered themselves "deists", but not Christian. A couple of them were reportedly atheist.

So people keep telling us, but not one of them can ever prove it. They just "heard" it somewhere, so it must be true.

In the words of a few of them:

George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washinton uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance.


Adams, the country's second president, was drawn to the study of law but faced pressure from his father to become a clergyman. He wrote that he found among the lawyers 'noble and gallant achievments" but among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces". Late in life he wrote: "Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!"
　
Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, said:"I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian."

James Madison, fourth president and father of the Constitution, was not religious in any conventional sense. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."

Benjamin Franklin, delegate to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, said:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble
http://www.skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id9.html
　

 

[AllieBaba]

What, exactly, is snake chucking?

one takes a snake and chucks it. should i use smaller words?

No, perhaps you could just use phrases that actually are pertinent to something?

 

[Hister]

“A specter is haunting America, and its not socialism and certainly not communism. It’s the specter of Americans kneeling in submission to a particular interpretation of a religion that has become an ideology, an all-encompassing way of life. Its is the specter of our nation ruled by the extreme Christian right, who would make the United States a “Christian Nation” where their version of God’s law supersedes all human law-including the Constitution.

“That, more than any other force in the world today, is the immediate and profound threat to our republic”

James Rudin, A quote from his book “The Baptizing of America”

Now provide us a single Main stream Christian group that wants a theocracy.

Like the ones who want to bring ID into schools because no one goes to sunday school anymore?
Or you mean like the US, where only a christian can get elected prez?