Posted on 10/22/2008 5:18:01 AM PDT by RDTF
Some Scandinavians were planting churches in the US in the 1840s & 1850s. Muskego, Koshkonong & a bunch of Holt/Holden/Hope congregations were established before your time line.
Everywhere church & state were directly mingled shows a reduction in the faith of the populations.
When you have a state trying to cut out portions of the Bible, because they're politically incorrect, those "real Christians" are swimming against the tide. I've seen it in news out of Denmark & Canada.
Is it any wonder that I see signs of the end times famine all around me?
I've found very little news about the state of the church in Norway. I'm thinking it's possibly because Norwegians are considered to be less enlightened by most other Scandinavians.
My grandparents came from Sweden and believed it, too. How that ostensibly Lutheran nation has fallen!
I have to go back a few more generations than you to find my direct connection to Europe. My Norwegian & German immigrant ancestors were all involved in building churches, including one who was a delegate when the Norwegian Synod in Wisconsin was formed in 1853.
My Swede seems to have emigrated mostly due to the economic condition of Sweden in 1888. It's been difficult to nail down anything about his faith, because he was a rare Swede in a "Norwegian" American community.
I think CUBA would be the BEST place for liberals to move to. Universal Healthcare and gun control...a real paradise for liberals.
I’d go for that or maybe Australia.
I assume the screed rests its argument on “Natural Law”.
American liberalism has survived in the right & the left has been trying to kill it off. Those who currently call themselves liberal or progressive aren't liberals, they're collectivist leftists.
It would be nice if they'd do what our religious ancestors did, vote with their feet. Instead, most of them stay in place, crap in their beds & try to force the rest of us to wallow in it.
All of the Scandinavian countries have less rapes per capita than the US.
Because they haven't. Muslim immigrants are a problem in some Scandinavian/Nordic countries, but they certainly have not "taken over."
I guess he forgets to mention that Scandinavia ranks among the highest in suicide rates around the world. And that Finland has had two school shootings in less than a year.
Incorrect.
The suicide rate is only slightly higher in Scandinavia (around 13.5/100 000 people annually in Denmark and Sweden and around 11/100 000 people annually in Norway and Iceland) while USA had a rate of 11 per 100 000 people (in the year of 2005).
Finland on the other hand has a rate of around 20/100 000, however Finland is not a Scandinavian country although it often is associated with Scandinavia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Guess it's too cold for Mr. Happy :-)
Sweden also has a growing immigrant problem. As do many European countries. Immigrants who cannot deal with women not covered head to toe.
Oh Gee..and I was so looking forward to the lecture on European oppression.
You can assert that unalienable rights are endowed upon us by a Creator, as in the Declaration, but unless you can prove it though objective evidence, it's just that...an assertion, not a fact.
OK, I’ll agree. YOU don’t have unalienable rights. I do.
Back to the point.
The founders created our country based on their worldview that there is indeed a Creator, and our rights come from that Creator, and are inviolable by the institutions of Man.
Now, if you don’t think this is a given, then you have no basis for declaring that you have any inviolable rights.
And all the people are white.
That fact that this was their worldview does not make it true. Until objective evidence shows the existence of inviolable rights, their existence remains an assertion. In the meantime we can continue to operate as if they existed.
Which they may. Or may not.
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