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

To: jlallen who wrote (52580)	7/7/2002 11:38:20 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not sure a convention for describing a date is the same thing as acknowledging. Any number of atheists and agnostics use BC and AD. I believe I could give mountains of data on this. There may even be a case on point! How exciting. But do try that argument if you get the chance. I'd love to see the arguments and the judgement.

To: jlallen who wrote (52580)	7/7/2002 3:35:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The only reference to the Lord I see in the Constitution is Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, If that argument is valid, then referring to the year the American Revolution began as 1775 A.D. must mean one is a Christian. It can be argued that the reference above is strictly formal and customary and otherwise meaningless. Had the founders intended to write a religious document, they could have. Had they intended to establish a religion, they could have. They did not.