ALso claiming the founding fathers were Christian.
It really depends on how you define the founding fathers. It seems that most of the people who are claiming this are thinking about black-clothed Pilgrims praying with friendly Indians over a Thanksgiving turkey. (Side note: Black was a very expensive dye. The Pilgrims would have thought that someone wearing black was putting on airs. Governor Bradford had "a Turkey red grograin suit, red waistcoat, tawny colored suit with silver buttons, a violet cloak of velvet lined with taffeta.")
The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophers who emphasized natural rights, understanding the world through science and questioning orthodoxy. Few expressed much religious fervor, except in the sense of worshiping god through the beauty of the natural world. Deists were distinctly not Christian. Deists believed that there was a Creator, but not one actively involved in the world, and that study of all religions and natural law would yield basic moral principles for all people.
ice cream sounds like a good plan, msbelle. Sending ~ma that everything goes smoothly.
A motion for ice cream is always in order.
I hope some good comes of all this, msbelle.
Except that I'm sure that most of these people would say that the Talmud doesn't count.
Some folks have religious beliefs that are on par with how my family has its own "rules" for scrabble that have nothing to do with the ones printed on the box.
Timelies all!
Never did understand how two men(or two women) getting married threatens my marriage. Of course, the folks who are most vocal about "traditional marriage" think I'm going to Hell anyway, so fuck them.
And then, then you try and play scrabble with other people like Polgara, who try and kill you because that's not what the scrabble rules say. And so I'm a scrabble blasphemer. But it's not my fault. It's how I was raised. I was raised that you get one free shot at switching out a letter. I WAS JUST RAISED THAT WAY.
And so I've thought about nailing that rule to Polgara's door, like a scrabble lutheran.
like a scrabble lutheran.
Does that mean we don't have to use only Latin words for Scrabble now?
I suspect that's why zen is still illegal. WHICH IS BULLSHIT.
Never did understand how two men(or two women) getting married threatens my marriage. Of course, the folks who are most vocal about "traditional marriage" think I'm going to Hell anyway, so fuck them.
While I sincerely doubt it would have any effect on your marriage, I can kind of see how Michelle Bachmann might consider the prospect of men being able to marry each other a threat to her own.
