From: "Gary Britt" 

Perhaps, but they aren't the ones who settled the continent, established
our culture, and wrote the constitution and declaration of independence.

Gary

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:441ad5aa$1{at}w3....
> Gary Britt wrote:
> > These comments you two are fawning all over are quite simplistic and
amount
> > to nice sounding superficial rubbish.
> >
> > The fact that religious principles inform, have informed, and certainly
> > informed the codes of behavior and morality that is embodied in our
> > constitution and other founding documents is without question.  The
morality
> > embodied in our criminal code to this day (and even more so when the
> > constitution was written) come extensively from our common religious
codes
> > of behavior.
> >
> > The constitution does not provide for the separation of government
> > institutions from our history and cultural heritage which includes our
> > common general religious codes of behavior.  Any thinking person who
tries
> > to deny this is either so woefully uninformed as to challenge the
initial
> > premise about being a thinking person or, as is more likely the case, a
> > disingenuous liar.  Cute sound bites do not change our history and
culture,
> > as much as some atheists and elitist snobs might like to pretend
otherwise.
> >
> >
>
> Lot's of room there for Hindu, animist, Buddhist etc Americans.
>
> Adam
>
> > Gary
> >
> > "Monte Davis"  wrote in message
> > news:aafk121f8s5et1932e5439a9n71nbg4aa5{at}4ax.com...
> >> Bill Lucy  wrote:
> >>
> >>> "you placed
> >>> your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the
Constitution. You did
not
> >>> place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold
the Bible."
> >> I'd seen that, loved it, sent it to my brother to put with a similar
> >> gem of his:
> >>
> >> "I have no problem with the Ten Comnmandments in
government buildings,
> >> long as I can put up the Bill of Rights in all the churches."
> >
> >

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