"... under God"

[neci]

Express whatever religious views you see fit in your own private life, just keep your religion out of politics.

that will never happen. religion is politics with the same colors and symbols. they are both herding the masses to where they belong. or they could just be trying to open the brain a tad so it can grow. today i will vote on mind control, tomorrow free will. without a boss, there would be chaos. at least that's what someone up in the factory said.

 

[fgarvb1]

I don't have anything else to add i just logged in with my old Nick to have the last part at the bottom in this thread

 

[richard_daily]

that will never happen. religion is politics with the same colors and symbols. they are both herding the masses to where they belong. or they could just be trying to open the brain a tad so it can grow. today i will vote on mind control, tomorrow free will. without a boss, there would be chaos. at least that's what someone up in the factory said.

That sounds vaguely anti-authoritarian. You should step back into line quickly, before someone mistakes you for an anarchist!

 

[neci]

That sounds vaguely anti-authoritarian. You should step back into line quickly, before someone mistakes you for an anarchist!

gotta keep that fire burning. jesus knows they already sacrificed the dinosaurs.

 

[richard_daily]

gotta keep that fire burning. jesus knows they already sacrificed the dinosaurs.

You take that back, jesus rode a dinosaur!

 

[neci]

You take that back, jesus rode a dinosaur!

i heard t-rex was friends with noah but then the bunnies complained and he got drowned in the sea.

 

[richard_daily]

i heard t-rex was friends with noah but then the bunnies complained and he got drowned in the sea.

That makes total sense... Either that, or dinosaur bones were just put here by the devil to test our faith. One or the other.

 

[Tryharder62]

Faith in a power greater than yourself isn't always a bad thing.

 

[Tryharder62]

i heard t-rex was friends with noah but then the bunnies complained and he got drowned in the sea.

That's because the bunnies were multiplying so fast the t-rex ate them.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My hope is we start here, and eventually religious institutions lose their tax exempt status. I think that there are a whole truckload of violations of the Establishment Clause in the name of 'god'.

This was already decided back in 1943. No one can be compelled to recite The Pledge of Allegience. Nor can they prohibit it. Plenty of Liberals hate prayers at commencements but, again, its not legal to censure prayer expressed by a speaker, tho its done all the time by school administrators.

I agree that tax exempt status needs to go away but it aint gonna happen, cuz blacks will riot. Half of them are clergy, and the other half are hookers.

 

[neci]

That makes total sense... Either that, or dinosaur bones were just put here by the devil to test our faith. One or the other.

science must have misconfigured time again.

That's because the bunnies were multiplying so fast the t-rex ate them.

he polished his teeth with the ewe, but preferred mammoth meat. bunnies are just evil.

 

[EducatedOwl]

Faith in a power greater than yourself isn't always a bad thing.

No one said it is. Those who want to teach their children faith are free to do so. Public schools need to be out of that business, though.

 

[the_kuntess]

No one said it is. Those who want to teach their children faith are free to do so. Public schools need to be out of that business, though.

Exactly right.

 

[Tryharder62]

No one said it is. Those who want to teach their children faith are free to do so. Public schools need to be out of that business, though.

You are talking about the pledge that is the official pledge of our country. My son when he was in 6 th grade was mandated to learn about the religions of the world in the hopes of tolerance. It's funny Christianity was almost a footnote if that. You can't have it both ways.

 

[EducatedOwl]

You are talking about the pledge that is the official pledge of our country.

Yes I am. Because it is the official pledge of our country, the words "under God" never should have been put there in the first place.

My son when he was in 6 th grade was mandated to learn about the religions of the world in the hopes of tolerance. It's funny Christianity was almost a footnote if that. You can't have it both ways.

Being forced to learn about religion and being forced to recite something endorsing religion are not the same thing. Was your son forced to pray to Allah when he learned about Islam?

 

[CaptainKirk]

No one said it is. Those who want to teach their children faith are free to do so. Public schools need to be out of that business, though.

Agreed.

It was written down somewhere... something about 'separation of church and state'?

 

[unregistered]

 

[CaptainKirk]

Not in the document you may think.

Thought it was in the by-laws at the Moose Lodge.

I could be wrong.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Sasha_Lyazzat]

I am not sure who I detest mostly. I detest religious fanatic who force belief down throat but I detest atheist who force non-belief down throat. Both factions give headache.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Now there it just may be....but, when I became a Moose, I don't remember it. But, I don't remember a lot that night anyways.

Might have been the Elks. Oh, well.

 

[EducatedOwl]

How many hoofed mammals are you?

 

[CaptainKirk]

How many hoofed mammals are you?

Just the ones that don't have religion(s).

...oh, wait; that's pretty much all of them. Quite a collection.

 

[unregistered]

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Thought it was in the by-laws at the Moose Lodge.

I could be wrong.

Are those things ever open? Every time I ride by one I never see more that 2 cars. Most times they're vacant.