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(63,221 posts)GB_RN
(2,347 posts)The assholes who run Hobby Lobby, among other people.
Aristus
(66,316 posts)"When I spoke with the Lord this morning, He told me to make America a Christian nation!"
It's always something for which there is no evidence of any kind, and always conforms to the speaker's own wishes.
GB_RN
(2,347 posts)"If you're hearing voices in your head, you need to see a psychiatrist, immediately! That's called schizophrenia, it can be dangerous, both to you and others, but it can be treated!"😁
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you.
Gaston - Ladyhawke
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Aristus
(66,316 posts)One of the great lines from that film.
RIP, Richard Donner...
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)great character, great film.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... is revelation; what you say God said to you is mere hearsay."
- Thomas Paine
KS Toronado
(17,199 posts)But right wingers are sure it's there somewhere, always claiming they'll get back with me when
they have proof. Glad I never held my breath.
KPN
(15,642 posts)that when interpreted correctly, as in according to them and those they follow, means the sin of "abortion". They are good at exrapolating facts/truth from bullshit.
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)Probatim
(2,525 posts)I guess they deserved since they "got borned".
oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)Siwsan
(26,259 posts)One has to do with Moses calling the plagues on Egypt (locusts, water turning into blood, and the deaths of first born sons) to pressure the pharaoh to release the Israelites. (Old Testament)
The other has to do with King Herod trying to insure the death of the Messiah. (New Testament)
Probatim
(2,525 posts)It's been a while since my time in catholic school. Not long enough to get past the nuns beating me for having a sense of humor (and being a lefty) but it's been a while.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)My mom was a leftie who was forced, by nuns, into being right handed. She trained me in the same direction so the things I've been 'taught' to do right handed - writing, for example - stuck. The things I taught myself I tend to do left handed. For example, my computer mouse/touch pad is always set for left handed and I can't comfortably steer a car using my right hand. So, both lobes of my brain get quite a work out.
And don't get me started on those nuns!!
Probatim
(2,525 posts)All gross motor skills (sports mostly) are done right-handed. All fine motor skills are done left-handed - this includes things like brushing my teeth, eating, and writing.
What's funny is that I'm left eye dominant and shoot a rifle left-handed but I shoot a bow right-handed.
I've played golf with work colleagues who only see me as a lefty. I show up at the course and it take 3-4 holes but someone always pipes up with - I thought you were left-handed?
I think it makes you better at problem solving.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)I like to think it all just makes me an interesting person.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Jesus never talked about abortion in the new testament.
But the old testament does - it gives a recipe on how to do it.
KS Toronado
(17,199 posts)Happen to know which book/verse?
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,282 posts)The Bible was written long after he was dead.
(That is, if he ever even existed)
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
-- Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
... that means each person's belief in who/what - if any - creator exists for them ...
... the Christian God is NOT in the Constitution ...
former9thward
(31,981 posts)That would be a reference to the "Christian God".
markpkessinger
(8,392 posts)The "year of our Lord" is merely the English translation of the Latin anno domini, or "A.D." It was the standard date convention of the day. It's a mistake to read anything more into it than that.
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markpkessinger
(8,392 posts)Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were all Deists, who believed that a supreme being created the world, and then withdrew from it and allowed it to run according to the laws that being had ordained. But given that they were also Virginians, and the Church of England was the established church in that colony, prior to the revoluition they would have been nominal Anglicans, but that doesn't necessarily mean they accepted Anglican dogma for themselves. Jesus was largely irrelevant in the scheme of Deism. They accepted terms like A.D. because Christians were indeed dominant, and they had no interest in trying to convert anyone away from it.
Of George Washington, Jefferson once observed that George Washington "has divines constantly about him because he thinks it right to keep up appearances but is an unbeliever. According to biographer Steven Waldman, Madison's view was that Washington was spiritual but not interested in the theological particulars of the Christian faith. Jefferson and Adams both seemed to have viewed Jesus more as a great ethical and moral teacher rather than their personal "Lord."
oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)So its a bit more than a simple translation
Joinfortmill
(14,416 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)That's what we need.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Its state sanctioned religion.
They didnt put it on coins until 1864 and on currency until 1957.
We got along without it just fine up until the those years.
Also remove the reference from the pledge of allegiance.
It was not put into it until the 1950s as well.
spanone
(135,823 posts)former9thward
(31,981 posts)Pretty sure the people who wrote that meant Jesus.
aka-chmeee
(1,132 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)That's part of the problem
czarjak
(11,266 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)He said to render to Cesar the things that are Cesar's, meaning government, and to God the things that are God's.
griloco
(832 posts)(3 exclamation points means it's true in Rightwingish)