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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (44661)	2/25/2002 11:02:51 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

This is what I said, after Dithers had acknowledged your point and amended his: The United States is a Christian nation, although in a somewhat latitudinarian sense. Many professing Christians could not meet the test of unqualified subscription to the Apostle's Creed....... 2Mar$ replied: The United States is a Christian nation In the year 393AD Christians outlawed the Pythian Games, the Aktia Games and the Olympic Games are as part of the Hellenic "idolatry". And sacked the Temples of Olympia. Seems, a few Pagan concepts of Democracy and their Idolatry did survive after all Neo , to become one of the more popular unifying forces in the world again. ...in Bronze Silver and Gold. But those were interesting times , the 3rd and 4th centuries. <g> (there was a link I am having trouble copying, with a laundry list of Christian persecutions of pagans) Give them God ... or give them Hell . Heaven could wait . ( Nice to see we are all finally growing up. ) I was always partial to Athena and Artemis , how about you ? ;-) I took it as a superfluous anti- Christian attack. Then there was this from Lazarus Long, as if anyone were proposing theocracy or even establishment: Then what is to be done about all these heathens and atheists and agnostics on this Christian land? Expel them? Burn them at the stake? And then there's a little problem in the basic law of the land: Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Seems that the national government cannot declare this to be a Christian nation. And the interpreter of that basic law, the USSC, has held that it also applies to the individual states. It has also held the "free exercise thereof" means those heathens can practice their preferred religions and atheists and agnostics can practice none. I hope you will agree that that was a misplaced attack. Then you add later, in apparent ratification of his concerns: Only 15%? Cheer up. I was perusing that web site that Neo referenced a few days ago (looking for whether Episcopalian is Christian) and noticed that the secular group has doubled in the last decade. Pretty soon we'll be too many to kill. Karen Followed by this, which certainly helped determine the mood of my response to you: Lotta real estate to bury them. Well, of course, they could just not bury us. It's not like we were Christians, after all, and deserved a decent burial. Karen That should be enough to answer your query.......