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Atheists demand removal of Utah highway crosses commemorating fallen Highway Patrol troopers
Rich Piehl > wrote in
: > Rappin' Ronnie Raygun wrote: > >> TV's Rich Piehl wrote: >> >>> Rappin' Ronnie Raygun wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> They want their religion to be a part of everybody's life, >>>> regardless of personal beliefs or lack of beliefs. That is what I >>>> find offensive. >>> >>> >>> Something similar could be said about atheists: >>> >>> They want their lack of religion to be a part of everybody's life, >>> regardless of personal beliefs. That is what I find offensive. >> >> >> No. Atheists want religion to be a private affair, just as the >> Constitution deems it. >> > > Would that be the Constitution made possible by the Declaration of > Independence? The one that reads: > > "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..." > > How can you have a Creator if you don't believe in God? > > You want the benefits of one document, but ignore the one that enabled > it. Without the first one the second one doesn't exist. > > Take care, > Rich > > God bless the USA Just because the people who wrote the Constitution (or the D of I)believed in a God does not mean that they meant religion to be intertwined with or supported by government.IMO,they meant that people could privately practice whatever they wanted,and government would be secular. They saw what happened when the Church took over English rule. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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