re: Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

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Wrong. The United States was literally founded on biblical principles. Not other religious beliefs.

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Literally none of those biblical principles made it into the constitution, dude.

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Wrong. The United States was literally founded on biblical principles. Not other religious beliefs.


Literally none of those biblical principles made it into the constitution, dude.

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Are people this fricking ignorant or dishonest?

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to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

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From the Declaration. To say nothing of the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, numerous original states establishing an official state christian religion, etc. We have some 1500 years of European tradition stemming from Christian ideas and morality, culminating in this unique nation. The pilgrims were religious exiles for frick's sake.

The very soul of our nation is that we have governance recognizing individual--not collective or inherited--rights and obligations. This is, historically speaking, a new and radical concept that is born of a uniquely Greco-Christian ideology. We are a Christian nation founded on Christian ideas, morality, and governance. To deny that is to be an obtuse fricking retard, or--even worse--a liar. And I tend not to insult people by calling them liars.

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Declaration


You realize that’s a different document than the constitution?

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Oh, wow. I had no clue. I guess the founders created the declaration with absolutely no moral, religious, or philosophical connection or nexus to the later constitution. They totally wrote the declaration they did in order to follow it up by reinstituting the monarchy. fricking tit.

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What does Christian governance mean?

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I already told you, but you were too far up your own arse to read.

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Show me one state in America where the 10 commandments are codified

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Thank you for conceding that multiple of the original states instituted an official religion. As to you changing the topic to CURRENTLY, you and I both know the 14th amendment applied the bill of rights to states.

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Show me one mention of the Bible in the constitution.

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I do not accept your shifting goal posts. Try again.

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You shoudl lool Jefferson’s bible and add it to your summer reading list. You’re in for an ugly surprise. May I also suggest Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers by Brooke Allen?

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Do you think we've never heard the myth that our founders were all just agnostic mere intellectuals who pulled all this moral foundation out of their areligious asses with no religious context whatsoever, as opposed to that they were diverse people who recognized the need for space for all to practice thier Christianity while utilizing well over multiple millenia of Greco-Christian philosophy and morality? No Christian has ever been fed up with other Christian ever, or tried to reform, or start their own branch, or disagreed with certain doctrines ever. You're just now telling us this. Wow. Bravo.

Take this pseudo edgy high school bullshite back to reddit. At best, some founders were some kind of non denominational, and yet the foundation is Christianity and Greek philosophy.

Look, you can wish it weren't the case. You can simultaneously just be wrong. You could say that using biblical writings as grammar lessons violates the first amendment or that posting our cultural foundations in school is somehow also a violation. You'd be wrong about at least the latter, but argue that. Not something you've been well disproven of decades ago.

Also, your moral high horse is a pony.

Edit: here are a couple books for you. A Miracle that Changed the World: The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen; The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro.

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Wrong. The United States was literally founded on biblical principles. Not other religious beliefs.

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I wish people would get in the habit of researching things they believe.. Or seek out information before committing to something as fact.

Look, I do the same shite sometimes.. But this is what I got from Gemini.

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The United States was not founded solely on biblical principles; the Founding Fathers held diverse views on religion, including Christianity, deism, and theistic rationalism. While some values in founding documents reflect a belief in a creator, they did not intend to create a Christian nation.

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