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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ben Carson: Humans walked on the moon because America was founded on God [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-carson-humans-walked-on-the-moon-because-america-was-founded-on-god/comments/#disqus"Ben Carson thinks human beings were able to travel to the moon because the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
Heres what is also fascinating, the Republican presidential candidate explains in a video published by the Adventist News Network. This nation the United States of America one of the few nations in history to claim God in their founding documents we talk about in our Declaration of Independence certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator, every one of our coins, every one of our bills says In God We Trust.'
In the video, described as a celebration of creationism from 2011, Carson suggests that Americas belief in God resulted in a technological revolution.
Now I want you to think about something, he says. This nation has had a profound effect on the world. Before the United States of America came on the scene, for 100 years, 200 years, a 1,000 years, 3,000 years, people did things the same way within 200 years of the advent of this nation, which believed in God, men were walking on the moon. Completely revolutionized and changed the world because a nation was willing to acknowledge God.
It just keeps getting more insane. Or funnier, depending upon your take. I guess he wasn't aware that the godless Russians made it to the Moon before we did.
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Ben Carson: Humans walked on the moon because America was founded on God [View all]
smirkymonkey
Nov 2015
OP
I agree he might be the strangest person I've ever seen run for POTUS. His ideas are bizarre.
Rex
Nov 2015
#13
We might have to start selling spots on our colony. Bet we get lots of people to come with us.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#22
Hey! My art teacher had me convinced for TWO HOURS that the pyramids were a power plant.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#42
I hear that the rapture is coming any day to take them away. And then finally sanity.
LiberalArkie
Nov 2015
#78
I hope so. The line is too long at The Lucky Wishbone. I want pan fried chicken.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#88
If you're a smoker, Cain's your man? Cain's choice for surgeon-general was Ben Carson
wordpix
Nov 2015
#138
Just like his Joseph and the Pyramids being granary myth...he gets about half of the legend right.
Rex
Nov 2015
#119
So once he isn't president how soon does the history channel hire him to voice over shows?
Johonny
Nov 2015
#23
more proof that he is unqualified to be president. i don't find it / him funny at all.
spanone
Nov 2015
#40
Of course it is....any chance to proclaim american exceptionalism, sit on top and punch down
wiggs
Nov 2015
#50
Actually Ben it was because we had Wernher von Braun and the Soviets didn't.
yellowcanine
Nov 2015
#51
Why is this lunatic getting secret service protection? He's a fuckin' hologram, not a human.
valerief
Nov 2015
#53
I just love this picture of Mission Control singing "Gimme gimme gimme that ole time religion"
struggle4progress
Nov 2015
#57
i have a teddy roosevelt era book, it say america was based on the magna carta.
pansypoo53219
Nov 2015
#79
So we wasted all that money and tapped all those scientific minds for nothing because it was
GoneFishin
Nov 2015
#110
In 301, Arsacid Armenia was the first sovereign nation to accept Christianity as a state religion.
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2015
#114
"for 100 years, 200 years, a 1,000 years, 3,000 years, people did things the same way"
left-of-center2012
Nov 2015
#135