On 12/21/2012 5:16 AM, Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] kosherhotmailcom> wrote:
>> That being said, the people who wrote the US's founding documents wrote
>> a lot of other stuff, too, and they they made it pretty plain that all
>> of the talk about freedom of religion was meant to apply to variants of
>> Christianity only.
>
>> The reason they did not explicitly enshrine Christianity in the US
>> Constitution is because they did not think it necessary.
>
> Yeah, because "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
> of religion" and "no religious Test shall ever be required as a
> Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"
> sounds exactly like "Christianity is the de-facto religion of the
> United states, that should be clear even without saying it."
>
> I just can't see how "shall make no law" and "no religious test shall
> ever be required" can be read as "the United States government and the
> constitution are Christian."
>
> I just love how some Americans are trying so hard to rewrite their own
> history and their own constitution.
>
Well, California, and now one other state, has explicitly passed state 
laws that "deny" the purchase, or teaching, or revisionist history, 
and/or creationism, in schools, based on precisely this sort of nonsense 
being rewritten into text books, in Texas.

Strictly speaking, some of that might be vaguely true, if you a) ignore 
the number of them that where basically deists, b) the one or two that 
might have been pagans, or c) the fact that many, including Jefferson, 
might, if such a thing had been an option, declared themselves agnostic, 
or even atheist. The man, after all, rewrote the Bible, taking out every 
single thing in it that might have been called "supernatural", which I 
presume included creationism, Adam and Eve, in the sense most Christians 
understand, etc.

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