I used to like Christians or at least – I didn’t actively dislike them. Then I moved to Texas. Christians here go to great lengths to show exactly how spoiled, immature and inconsiderate not to mention supremacist they are. It’s like a badge of honour around here.
Case in point: HB-3768, submitted by Representative Howard of Fort Bend and endorsed by Governor Perry who stated, in support of this bill, “Freedom of religion shouldn’t be mistaken for freedom from religion”. The point of the bill?
The offspring of Christian Texans are being denied their right to force their schoolmates into listening to/participating in their religious customs.
To assure non-discrimination against a student’s publicly stated voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint (if any), and to eliminate any actual or perceived affirmative school sponsorship or attribution to the school district of a student’s voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint (if any), a school district shall establish a limited public forum for student speakers at school events in which students are to publicly speak.
In other words, secular institutions must set aside time at secular events for religious activities that are unrelated to the secular event and possibly not shared by the secular audience.   Bah! I really need to move out of this state before I go completely mad.
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Danny DeVito once said in the movie “Other Peoples Money”, “Have it put on my tombstone – ‘He never went to Texas’.”
That makes me cringe. I used to scoff at the saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” Is nobody else seeing frightening similarities to the very behavior our Founding Fathers created our country to escape!?
This has been my experience here in Mississippi as well. There are Christians, and then there are Southern Christians. The only consolation is that I suspect many Christians in the rest of the country would disown our Southern variety if they knew what they were like.
David said: very behavior our Founding Fathers created our country to escape!?
You are wrong hate to say it.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–”
Should be taken out of the Declaration of Independence then, right?
Come on give me a break the Bible was the blue print for the US. Marriage, umm invented by God, The Nations laws were made emulating God’s law (The Ten Commandments) lie, steal, adultery, murder and such. Don’t be deceived you will face God on judgment day for your sins. What are sins you ask, Breaking the Ten Commandments is sinning. Break the law in the US then go to jail. Break God’s law and go to hell for eternity. God did something so you wouldn’t have to go to hell, does anyone know what he did?
For Him,
Dan
Dan,
The Declaration is not a legally binding document and no one is stating that we should take white-out to it. The fact that you’re attempting to misrepresent the argument in this manner is indicative that you will not last long around here as I’m much more impatient with trollish a-holes than the atheists you ran across at Martin’s blog.
As to the 10 Commandments being the basis of American law, please read this article by Austin Cline as he does a great job of blowing that argument out of the water.
KC,
That certainly did not “blow the argument out of the water†Your conscience (with knowledge) tells you what is right and wrong and God burned them into your brain and we call them God’s law or the Ten Commandments. I will move on to marriage, I suppose that the Bible had nothing to do with that either.
Give me a break, who are you trying to convince, me or you?
You are the ones who are trollish on God’s green earth.
Are you going to let me comment or not?
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