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Old 09-25-2018, 09:36 AM
 
Location: New Jersey (Europe Sep ‘19)
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You remind me why I became disillusioned with the Christian religion more than 50 years ago and never looked back. Bye-bye.
Luckily you were not born into a Muslim family and if you left you would have been killed.

 
Old 09-25-2018, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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Some people on CD will pick apart and argue points never made by someone else, just for the sake of bickering and having nothing better to do. I have no time or desire for that crap. If you do, I feel sorry for you.

Look. America was founded and built on Christianity and the Word of God as written in the Bible. Don't like it? Leave and find your godless utopia someone else.

Did I make that clear enough for you, jacqueg? If not... oh, well... bye-bye.
North America was colonized by European Christians of various types. But the United States was founded first by the Articles of Confederation, which was superseded by the current Constitution. Oddly, neither one mentions god or the bible, let alone jesus. Why do you think that is?
 
Old 09-25-2018, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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Look. America was founded and built on Christianity and the Word of God as written in the Bible. Don't like it? Leave and find your godless utopia someone else.
No, it wasn't. The Founding Fathers drew their inspiration from Athenian Democracy (which was, interestingly enough, a pagan society at the time), which was a good 500 years before Christianity. Try again.
 
Old 09-25-2018, 10:29 AM
 
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No, it wasn't. The Founding Fathers drew their inspiration from Athenian Democracy (which was, interestingly enough, a pagan society at the time), which was a good 500 years before Christianity. Try again.
Also the Iroquois Confederacy, interestingly enough. And a whole lot of bits and pieces from enlightment thinkers like Mill, Locke, and Rousseau.
 
Old 09-25-2018, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Colorado
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Also the Iriquois Confederacy, interestingly enough. And a whole lot of bits and pieces from people like Mill, Locke, and Rousseau.
Plus the Magna Carta. The Founding Fathers took bits and pieces from a lot of places.
 
Old 09-25-2018, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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For y'all's amusement:

https://www.nobeliefs.com/pagan.htm
 
Old 09-25-2018, 12:46 PM
 
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Thanks for posting it!
 
Old 09-25-2018, 04:20 PM
 
Location: New Jersey (Europe Sep ‘19)
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Several colonies in America had official state church. America is historically a Christian nation.
 
Old 09-25-2018, 06:52 PM
 
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Several colonies in America had official state church. America is historically a Christian nation.
But those colonial charters were revoked long ago, and they have no legal standing now.

It’s true that most religious Americans are Christian. It’s not true that the government is Christian.
 
Old 09-25-2018, 08:55 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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Do you think that Muslims in America should pay jizya (tax that’s imposed on non-Muslims in Islamic nations under Islamic Sharia Law)? Since they impose that law on Christians and other non-Muslim residents in their own countries, I think Muslims in America and the West should also pay this extra tax. This will bring in nice revenue to the nation which could help pay for many things.

No. Our tax system in this country has nothing to do with what it was or is in Muslim countries.
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