Posted on 04/20/2010 5:32:20 PM PDT by pissant
Is America a Christian nation?
Sarah Palin said on Friday that it's "mind-boggling" to suggest otherwise.
But two groups dedicated to the separation of church and state are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders' intent.
"It's incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people be religious," Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told ABC News.
"It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited government to get the government involved in matters of faith."
Lynn was reacting to remarks Palin gave last Friday in Louisville, Ky., one day after a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled that the National Day of Prayer, created in 1952 by Congress, violated the First Amendment.
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Must be a college graduate at least, confusing nation and govt like that!
sidenote: do you know an alternative site to snopes?
Go Sarah!!!!!
Go Sarah!!!!!
...and that has NOTHING to do with the national identity as a Christian nation. When the percentage is, what, 80% Christian?
I mean, what idiot would say we do not identify ourselves as a Christian nation?
Oh...THAT idiot.
The only basis for equality in our democracy is the biblical belief that man has value because he is created in the image of God and is loved by Him, each and every one.
Absent that, we have no equality. (We certainly didn’t evolve equally.) We are not equally bright, good looking, physically healthy, etc. Nor are we all of the same utilitarian value to our fellows.
Absent the biblical belief, we might as well be social darwinists (nazis) with a survival of the fittest philosophy; or breed citizens of one ancestry (Aryan or otherwise); or believe in a caste system (with 2000 different levels); or believe that men ought to be servants to animals (that one would really be popular these days).
Mr Lynn I believe you are missing the point although apparently that is not surprising. The point is that there can be less authoritarian government if there is more Christianity.
It's kind of like the Soviet Union outlawing Christianity, or a man cannot serve two masters. Less religion, more authoritarian government; more religion, less authoritarian government.
Get it?
Wish I did. Snopes tends to be liberally influenced (what else).
sidenote: do you know an alternative site to snopes?FReeper Jo Nuvark posted a nice list of alternatives to snopes on THIS thread:
Is Snopes Liberal?
ping to my post #29
Thank you!
Mere neutrality in matters of religion from this government would be a relief.Bingo!Instead, the Dem/Communists are actively engaged in persecuting Judeo-Christian belief while embracing Islam and secular paganism... - Argus
Ann Coulter recently summarized this same observation, in her comments about retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' position on this subject:
He has long found any religious practice not crushed by the government to be an "establishment of religion." - Ann Coulter
A real alternative to snopes has to replace it on everything, not just on the political issues. Otherwise people will still go to snopes to see if that email virus alert is real or not.
:o)
Yeah I’m going to listen to some atheist asshole try to tell me what Christianity and conservatism are and how they don’t mesh.
“It must really bother Obama that he’s in the White House ... and she controls the debate. Haha.”
That’s what happens when you think you can win debates with lines such as:
“I won”
“the time for debate is over”
“Let me be clear...”
“the tea partiers should thank me for cutting tax cuts...”
Liberals don’t know how to intellectually defend their positions so all they can do is ram everything through and compare us to McVeigh.
“It must really bother Obama that he’s in the White House ... and she controls the debate. Haha.
SnakeDoc”
You nailed it SnakeDoc!
“It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited government to get the government involved in matters of faith.”
No it’s not. A faith based government would have the govt out of welfare in order for religious charities to fill in the void. All that money could be going for churches and Catholic schools instead of taxpayer funded bureaucracies and public schools.
The secular govt needs a welfare state because nobody else would help the poor in their world without religion.
So two groups filled with God-hating Azz holes dont agree with Palin that America is a Christian nation.
BFD.
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