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 sparlo rated 5 months ago- Presidents swear to uphold and defend the constitution. Its authors wanted to keep government from interfering with religious observance, and vice versa.
I disagree with tagging this article "atheist". The constitution doesn't dictate how many gods you shouldn't believe in.
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- sparlo rated 5 months ago
- Presidents swear to uphold and defend the constitution. Its authors wanted to keep government from interfering with religious observance, and vice versa.
I disagree with tagging this article "atheist". The constitution doesn't dictate how many gods you shouldn't believe in.
From the page: "Madison then embarks on a critique of presidential proclamations of thanksgiving, prayer, or fasting. 'Although recommendations only, they imply a religious agency, making no part of the trust delegated to political rulers.' (There's a sentence for Huckabee to ponder.) Madison points out that such recommendations 'tend to narrow the recommendation to the standard of the predominant sect.' Americans live, he observes, in a nation of 'various sects, some alienated widely from the others.'"
- Yasue rated 5 months ago
- An essay about the attempts to re-write US history to falsely cast us as a Christian nation.
- kevinryanmooney rated 8 months ago
- This is an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ISSUE. Also, look up the Treaty of Tripoli.
 b33m3r rated 8 months ago- There is bullshit from both sides of this argument. The founding fathers were religious, the very premise of our legal system was founded on religious ideals; the basic and fundamental premise that we should all be nice to each other, respect each others beliefs and try to help each other in any way we can (ideally it would be anyway). Granted, any idiot with a cross and a grudge can fuck this up but so can someone without the cross and with a grudge. Religion doesn't kill people, people with a severe lack of empathy for each other kill people. Everyone is a narcissist and out for themselves these days, I would not go putting myself above other people without questioning my own motives first. You have to learn to think deeper than what they want you to see and think, both sides are out to dupe you.
- timepotato rated 8 months ago
- Sweetness, he got some of the best quotes on the subject in one article. pure gold
- 11saga11 rated 8 months ago
- From the page: A Christian Nation? By Carol V. Hamilton
An essay on the views on religion in the public sphere of the US founding fathers.
- kayell rated 8 months ago
- From the page: "Ignorance of science and of intellectual history is endemic in this country, but it is exacerbated by home-schooling and religious schools, with their "Christ-centered" curricula.
The Christian-nation myth can be debunked by a little reading of original texts. "
Read about the issue in the founders own words.
- Wespennest rated 8 months ago
- WELL I GEUSS TOHMAS JEFFORSEN AND BENJIMAN FRANKKKLIN HATES AMERIICA THEN
- scrabbleddie rated 8 months ago
- This essay is a call for sanity against the current religious crusades from which the country may not long endure.
- beastly-rich rated 8 months ago
- Wow, complete with an explanation of why they made it that way.
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