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Permalink Reply by Ghost The Smoker on September 25, 2011 at 8:00pm

Where did I say I was smarter then 98% of Americans. I was simply talking about how atheist and atheism is misunderstood and when will people begin to understand it. I never said those words and I think it's insulting you would just make that assumption. hell, I'm only 18, a senior in high school. And on top of that I'm far from head of my class. Why would I think That?

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Permalink Reply by Jean Clelland-Morin on September 26, 2011 at 3:22am

Hi Lil. I'm 73 and would say you are way ahead of where I was when I was 18.

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Permalink Reply by Ghost The Smoker on September 26, 2011 at 2:29pm

Thank you, I kinda figured I was a little late. just call me Rome.

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Permalink Reply by Dylan Sloboda on September 27, 2011 at 6:58am

 

"Furthermore to say that being a Christian demands no intellectual effort..." Precisely!

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Permalink Reply by Michael on March 11, 2012 at 4:29am

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that only two of the founders were christian. There were many more than that. The most prominent ones were atheists and deist. Christianity would never have been outlawed because of the founders dedicated belief in the freedom of religion. They never would have attempted to regulate thought. Try not to exaggerate about our early history the way Christians do.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on June 12, 2012 at 7:20pm

Michael, about your "They [the founders] never would have attempted to regulate thought."

You're right; at least two of them gave more attention to regulating wealth. Hamilton said he wanted the "rich and well born" to run the government. Madison said he wanted the government to protect the "minority of the opulent from the majority".

If anyone wants evidence for the above, let me know. It's online and in Federal Depository Libraries in Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787" and it's online.

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Permalink Reply by Taryn RaiiLyn Derner on December 25, 2011 at 2:45am

Americas WAS NOT founded on Christian principals

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Permalink Reply by Ron V on February 22, 2012 at 9:58pm

Sure it was - genocide, racism/slavery, deceit, suppression of womens' rights, white supremecy, "witch" burnings.....very Christian indeed.

Now, the nice things Christians try to claim- peace, love, tolerance, service to mankind, etc,- are not uniquely Christian and are not dominant values in practical Christianity over the course of American history.

Christian "love" is not so loving.

 

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on December 25, 2011 at 12:47pm

I challenge anyone to read the bible and say the message is not beautiful

@ Colt - Yeah, I especially like: 

JOSHUA 11:6   Horse torture:  And the LORDsaid unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for  tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

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Permalink Reply by Scott A. Hunt on December 25, 2011 at 1:15pm

And we are a country found on Christian principles

 

Proof?  We are no means a christian nation or a nation founded on christian principals.

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Permalink Reply by Lewal on December 26, 2011 at 2:52pm

I was gonna say this guy is the grand-emperor of trolls... then I saw the cowboy hat, and realized.

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Permalink Reply by Kenny Howse on February 23, 2012 at 2:02pm

You're gonna have to enlighten us non-Americans!  What does does the cowboy hat mean to you @C. Lewal 

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