From: "Gary Britt" 

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.


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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