Re: Liars & Fools on Parade


"Nixon.D" <nixon.d@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:coidneeZ5I9tSYbanZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Rita" <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:estih35irhls9enr4qjn3gqgb7rhvakema@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:00:12 -0500, High Miles <2Blues17@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Rita wrote:

I just read it again. Show me where there is anything in it that
references Christianity? There are some broad references to
"Divine Providence" but that is not defined and certainly can be
applied to a wide variety of religious beliefs.

The point I made earlier was that there is nothing that makes religion
of any kind mandatory -- and all they wanted was to allow citizens to
practice the religion of their choice. No more, no less.

Jefferson was a deist as were others of the Founding Fathers. I said
they were not "pious" and that is true also. They saw freedom of
religion as a most important backbone of our system. And that
encompasses the right to be a "believer" or not to be a believer.
And why anyone would want this any other way, I can't fathom.


As long as we always have freedom from religion, and all faiths are
kept far away from schools and other government funded places,
the Constitution will be defended.

Divine providence could be a bunch of guys from Maine as far as
any of us know.

Exactly -- it could be no more than the best of the human spirit
at work.

As far as I can see, people here have ample opportunities to pray
privately or with others in churches, their homes and other meeting
places -- no need to bring that prayer into schools or other venues
of the public domain. It is a matter of voluntary association. Not
of imposing religion on others who are not interested.
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Pay no attention to that old conschtortiated battle-ax, Rita. She's led more than one impressionable female astray right here within this very newsgroup within the past year.
She does seem to have Evelyn right under her spell most of the time even though Evelyn is definetly NOT an atheist. (can an atheist also be a Wiccan?)

SirMcDaveOfMerryland
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Nobody has me under their spell, I am a free person who chooses my friends carefully. I happen to like Rita and Dorothy and Nantz and most of the others who post here. Fortunately the religious nuts don't seem to stick around here too long :-) I wonder why that is?

And I am a non-theist. That means that I don't believe in any special kind of a god like person, a "big daddy in the sky" kind of a guy at all. I don't believe the universe was deliberately made by anyone or anything, but that it evolved due to causes and conditions having nothing to do with any godlike beings.
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Best Regards,

Evelyn



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