From: "Gary Britt" 

We were discussing the founding of our country and the establishment of its
constitution and the culture that informed and still informs the meaning of
words written therein.  Chinese workers in the 1800's are unrelated to what
was being discussed.

Again, your confusion and inability to track a conversation continues.

Gary

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:44216904{at}w3....
> Gary Britt wrote:
> > You're usual confusion at work.
> >
> > No the "they" referred to the Muslims and Buddhists,
etc. to which you
> > referred in the message to which I replied.  As opposed to the
Christians
> > (without reference to denomination) who did settle the continent and
> > establish the USA culture.
> >
>
> Then that's even more rubbish. You seem to conveniently forget all the
> chinese etc who built the railroads etc & established chinatowns all
> over the place.
>
> However you culture was created by & for protestants. To try & pretend
> that it's all one happy Christian family is to completely ignore your
> own history ranging from the move of the mormons out to Utah to the
> puritan vs Quaker vs Anglican scrap which set the stage for the creation
> of the US in the first place.
>
> > In a conversation, pronouns can and do refer to groups and names of
things
> > and people under discussion, and are not susceptible to analysis outside
of
> > the context of the conversation.  Maybe this is part of the problem you
> > constantly seem to have in maintaining a stream of thought throughout an
> > ongoing discussion.  You either don't read or don't remember prior
> > statements in the conversation and respond to each message as though it
was
> > the first message you've ever seen.  That would account for the number
of
> > times one has to tell you questions posted by you in response to message
8
> > were included in messages 3 and 4 of the same thread.
> >
>
> More crap. Self serving crap at that.
>
> Adam
>
>
> > Gary
> >
> > "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote
in
> > message news:4420f5ee$1{at}w3....
> >> Gary Britt wrote:
> >>> I never commented upon denomination breakdowns.  It isn't
relevant to
> > the
> >>> point I originally made.
> >>>
> >> Rubbish as usual.
> >>
> >> You wrote:
> >>
> >> "Perhaps, but they aren't the ones who settled the continent,
> >> established our
> >> culture, and wrote the constitution and declaration of
independence."
> >>
> >> The ones who wrote your constitution etc were anglicans, puritans,
> >> Quakers & other protestants & they were deeply anti-catholic.
> >>
> >> So "they" = protestants. Not Animists, Jews,
Muslims, Biddhists or
> >> Catholics.
> >>
> >> Adam
> >
> >

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