C'mon kiddies...
Tired...
C'mon kiddies...
I've spent plenty of time here, but almost none in the 9/11 forums. Its not a topic that piques my interest. Sorry to dissapoint you.
It is true. Name one civilization that didn't have a theocratic based government when it began, besides america.
I think America did ...Originally Posted by jetsetlemming
it just wasn't the Church of England, which is what they didn't want to be a part of.
look at a huge amount of our laws ... how many of them are based in Puritan ideals?
when the founding fathers created this country, and separated church and state, they didn't intend to remove God and religion from the government. The idea of not involving God in their daily lives was unheard of at the time.
look at our money, it says 'in God we trust' The pledge of Allegiance references God. Almost every one of our national songs pays homage in some form to God ...
But here's the point, most of those civilizations did not evolve when religion was involved.
And I take back what I said about religion and policits being mixed. Many govnt's around the world have no problem with it. It doesnt really matter to me as long as the govenrment doesnt impose there views on anyone else. Especially in America because one the main pillars of our govt is the seperation between church and state.
The wonderful thing about Christianity is that there pretty much is no whole cake you've got to force down. There are so many sects and different enitities that you can have your own beliefs and not have everything decided for you. There are Christians (for the most part, it's the Protestant sects that offer all the diversity) that believe in science, that believe in evolution (as a tool of God), there are Chirstians that believe in (gasp!) free speech. The "whole cake" for Christianity is just belief in God, his power, and Jesus as the messiah. That is the absolute only lump statement you can make about Christians, because it's far too diverse a group to get anything else that fits every one of them (even the "fundamentalists").
http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...fundamentalist
Fundamentalist:
- A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
- <LI type=a>often Fundamentalism An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.
- Adherence to the theology of this movement
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