[H.RES.397.IH] designation of the first week in May as `America’s Spiritual Heritage Week’

[H.CON.RES.121.IH] Encouraging the President to designate 2010 as `The National Year of the Bible’

[H.RES.39.EH] Whereas America’s Catholic schools are internationally acclaimed for their academic excellence, but provide students more than a superior scholastic education;

[H.RES.39.IH] Honoring the contributions of Catholic schools.

[H.J.RES.12.IH] Expressing support for designation of September 2009 as `Gospel Music Heritage Month’

[H.RES.220.IH] Whereas the Ecumenical Patriarchate is the spiritual home of the world’s oldest and second largest Christian Church, adding to the rich cultural tapestry of Istanbul, Turkey

[H.RES.236.IH] Whereas the Ecumenical Patriarchate is the spiritual home of the world’s oldest and second largest Christian Church

Lots of weird little resolutions out there. I’m starting to think that all of these resolutions and bills that get passed just add up to a state-sponsored religion by default. Hope that one honoring the Dalai Lama [H.RES.226.IH] gets the ball rolling for Buddhism…

PS: I wrote my congresswoman to vote against 397. Couldn’t find anything called 288.

I have more…

Abe Lincoln “I am approached by religious men who are certain they represent the devine will. If god would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected to my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it DIRECTLY to me”. He also wrote a treatise against christianity, arguing that the bible was not god’s revelation and that Jesus was not the son of god..

Benjamin Franklin “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches”, “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason”

Thomas Jefferson “Question with boldness, even the existence of god”, “I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies”, Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man… perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind.. a mere contrivance for the clergy to filtch wealth and power to themselves”, I’ll end with this one… “State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine our civil rights… Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state,’ therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society”.

You see, comming from England, where the church “ruled” allowed our founding fathers the foresight to see the flaws in allowing the church to be involved with running the state..

Doesn’t say either way, does it?

Right, so as usual, you libs take that as license to insert what suites your purposes.

Joking, right?

Huh? You make the preposterous claim:

For the sake of equilibrium, the govt. needs to be neutral on the matter. So nobody’s allowed to ‘exercise religion.’

and you think I’m joking???

No, they’re not allowed to give special rights to any 1 religion, regardless.

And nobody’s said that “they” should. This is all about the free exercise thereof.

Oh wow, that’s just fucking insulting on so many levels.

Oh wow, and we certainly can’t allow anyone’s opinion to do that… especially after it’s been asked for…

So, we atheists aren’t ‘free’, since we don’t acknowledge your ‘higher power’.

Sadly, you’ll bang your head against the wall of natural consequences (and stupidly continue to do so) long before you’ll ever take my word for it.

Lemmee guess – you’d pass legislation against atheistic ideology if you could.

You bet—and not only that, if I had my way, you’d be water-boarded 24/7 until you recant…

It’s implied…balances.

Yeah, just like everything else on your liberal wish-list.

you & phreddy spin that into something YOU’D rather hear, & I’m in denial?

Yeah. Under the seeming auspices of engaging in a reasoned debate, you ask for my opinion; I give it; it ain’t what you wanted to hear, so you turn skitzo and resort to your old tricks.

Same ol’ same ol’.

Bye.

“So take some notes. That is, unless you’d prefer to be under the Western version of Sharia?”

Response: We do need to be forever vigilant, but, I don’t lose much sleep over the issue. There’s a reason why the first plug the founding fathers placed in a loophole was to make sure there was never a state religion. It was a freemason thing. It only cost a few hundred thousand early deaths to put the christians in line with civil rights in the civil war.

There’s nothing I have seen or heard that makes me think that the American society is moving away from freethought. What does concern me though, is that the unspeakable horror of war is a way of life in many parts of Africa, including Liberia, where the slaves went to rebuild their lives.

(NeoWolfe falls to his knees and sobs)

Nice. thanks for sharing!…