|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:53 PM Original message |
You know, Thomas Jefferson would have been upset at the whole idea of tonight's "Compassion Forum".. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. The founding fathers were deists and the constitution was written on hemp |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
32. sorry, no |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. They weren't "all" deists and they didn't "all" have like mind on religion |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. Great post! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. I know it made me feel kind of uneasy |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. people who thump bibles seldom have much compassion IMO nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
againes654 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Those that thump bibles on TV have very little compassion |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. "Bible Thumping?" Your bias is showing. Obama didn't go into anything mystical |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. My anti-religion bias? Of course! That's what the post was all about. I'm not hiding it. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. they may not have been actually thumping the bible but they were panderng 2 those who do.. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. Jefferson was a Deist, so was James Madison, Thomas Paine, and several others. Washington was... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
30. All of the 13 colonies had official state religions -- after the revolution. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 09:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. As you well know, nearly all states desanctioned state religion in the later years. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-15-08 01:06 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. That is not the point and you know it. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-15-08 01:43 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Not all, but a significant cadre of them avoided evangelism for good reason. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
indie_voter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. I agree. It was uncomfortable. But as a non theist |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Neshanic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. Upset is putting it mildly. He would ask for a Scotch and a Valium. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. Yeah, well. A lot of people in the compassion forum would have problems with his slave raping... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Until BHO gets elected, TJ is still the only President that we KNOW has fathered a black child.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
31. We don't know that at all. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JasonHill (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. You may be right |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. He WAS only one man.... but he was the founder of our party, for all intents and purposes.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JasonHill (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I agree with the seperation of church and state |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. This forum wasn't private.... it was viewed by millions.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JasonHill (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. i meant it wasn't govt sanctioned |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:21 AM Response to Reply #14 |
33. You are wrong. James Madison wrote the First Amendment. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. Bible thumping????????????? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Look... I love 99% of what Obama is about.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I'm not looking for another person who just says what "needs" to be said. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I'm not denying anyone any right whatsoever.... I'm saying that one's beliefs are |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-13-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. By your standards the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq are just Fine. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
35. You mean you hope he was lying? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
againes654 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:16 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. I wish I could recommend this post |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
25. Pardon me if I don't give a shit what slave-owning plutocrats think |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:48 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. That is quite possibly the most uninformed statement in this thread. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #28 |
37. Which part of it, exactly? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 09:14 AM Response to Reply #25 |
38. Like it or not, Thomas Jefferson is the founder of our party.... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
26. Clinton would probably call Jefferson an elitist too, if Obama brought him up. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DUyellow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
27. Today would have been his birthday! April 13, 1743 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. We can't win without 'em and he handled it well. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
36. excellent OP but the question is do we hand this demographic to the Repbulicans |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-14-08 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
40. true but I think its safe to say that the TV cameras would have left him completely fuckbrained |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cameron27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-15-08 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
43. It bothered me too, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Thu May 02nd 2024, 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC