Junk Fathers
The Founding Fathers, and God, sit down to write the constitution. It's a silly little dig on the idea of the USA as a Christian Nation, but more importantly it casts the FFs as Junk Scientists of the highest order.
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January 2007: Sweet fancy Moses, Alex got engaged! Also, alphabet.
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I actually don't understand the argument *against* the U.S. being a Christian nation.
All the first settlers were from the British Isles and therefore varying degrees of Protestant. The next settlers were African slaves, who were quickly forced into being some form of Protestant. The next settlers were Germans, Dutch, Swiss, and various Swedes all of whom were -- you guessed it -- Protestant.
Saying that the U.S. was not settled as a Christian nation is like saying Egypt is not an Arab Muslim nation.
Yes, there's no official state American religion, but it is a supreme act of foolishness to deny that the religiosity of the first settlers played little part in shaping their worldview, or our current views of law, man, morality, etc.
I think what critics of American religiosity always forget is that the FF made a government, but the other 3.9995 million Americans in 1783 created a national character. And those folks were all Christian -- for better or worse. (Except for S. Carolina's Jewish population. But that's another story.)
I think the argument is that in regards to government, as opposed to national character, we AREN'T a Christian nation and that for the most part this was intentional on the part of the Founding Fathers. Freedom of Religion and all that rot. I mean, it's obvious that in national character we are STILL a Christian nation, but I think that ought to be considered separate from government itself.
Sometimes, in fact, the whole point of government is to restrain national character, as it can have some rather nasty tendencies.
Ah...I get it. Well, I guess there's really nothing to argue about then.
For now.
Bwahahahahahaha.
I think that all the prominent bloggers should be forced to have bipartisan blogs. A lot of things might get settled that way.
I'm more than happy to spread the joy that is bipartisan blogging, but I will say, Bizarro Day is an event reserved for the Mastodons and the Mastodons alone.
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