Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it ,unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

-Buddha


Tuesday, April 7

christian America?

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Am I the only one who is sick and tired of hearing bullshit lies from the christians? “This is a christian nation!” “In god we trust!” “One nation under GOD!” What the fuck ever.
Just because there are a lot of christians in this country, they think they can take over and create a theocracy. They like to pretend to be patriotic and love freedom and democracy, but they sure do not practice it. Either they are very deceitful, diabolical, and conniving liars, or, they are extremely ignorant of history, religion, and civics. That's a toss up if there ever was one.
First let's address this christian-nation bullshit. There are 118 people who were considered to be the Founding Fathers. Of them, 49 claimed to be protestants, 3 catholics, and the other 66 claimed no religion, deism, theism, or atheism. So less than half of the founders- who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution by the way- were even christians. They wrote it into the First Amendment pretty clearly that freedom of religion is guaranteed, and the US Supreme Court later determined that separation of church and state is required. Then later on one of the founders became president, and it became necessary to write up a treaty with another country. This treaty clearly states that the USA is not founded on christian principles:
"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion...." (source)
The treaty was endorsed by John Adams:
"Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End that the said Treaty may be observed, and performed with good Faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill the said Treaty and every clause and article thereof." - John Adams
Congress passed it unanimously and there was no public debate over it at the time. So how can the christians say 'this is a christian nation'? Because they hope so. Because they don't know what they're talking about. Because they are ignorant and feel that a theocracy would be better than the democracy they claim to support.
Then why does it say 'in god we trust' on the money? They think that proves that they are right. Actually it proves that they are ignorant of rudimentary historical facts. 'In god we trust' was first printed on the money in 1864 for coins (first suggested by a minister in 1861), and on paper bills in 1957. Not since colonial times, as they would have you believe. The money is not really owned nor printed by the federal government anyway. The Federal Reserve, a private bank, does it. Just because a private bank decides to put that snappy logo on their product, it doesn't mean they speak for the government of the country their product is used in.
'One nation under god' is the corniest one of all. Especially how they always write it with huge letters for the word god, like: “One nation Under GOD “. Capitalization, or even all caps isn't enough I guess, so they write it in bigger font and pronounce it likewise- hanging their mouth open and saying it louder, like some weird braying cow. Anyway, the phrase was started and added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954. This was during the Vietnam war, when the govt. was trying so hard to demonize 'those godless communists!' So the Knights of Columbus- a catholic fraternity, campaigned for inclusion of the phrase until it became official. Then when it was challenged in court, the brainwashed robot league-BRL-aka, the christians, made a big freaking deal out of it. Why it is such a big sore point for them, one can only guess, since they won. Albeit- on a technicality because the original plaintiff was involved in a custody battle. But somehow I doubt that 99% of the BRL even knows that, much less that it was appealed. Then on 3/11/10 the original ruling was upheld by an appeals court. So now they think they are so religious to post this phrase all over the place- oh yeah- they are showing them damned atheist commies! Not.
I have always wanted to ask one of these christians if they think George Washington was a devil-worshiping commie. Or, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams... Not to mention Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein.... See lists in links to right.
So next time you hear their nonsense, just smile, knowing how stupid they are. Poor saps...


see also: this excellent article

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