[internetworkers] Marriage and religion
Michael Czeiszperger
michael at czeiszperger.org
Sat Feb 7 17:14:51 EST 2004
On Feb 7, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>
>> The founding fathers had a variety of personal beliefs, including
>> Christian, but many of the quotes thrown around to support the idea of
>> a Christian nation are, ahem, inaccurate:
> I'm simply arguing that to say our government was founded devoid of
> Christian principles is the equivalent of saying the world is flat.
What you have to do here is separate the concept of the individual from
that of the government, and the government was specifically designed to
be separate from religion. The only possible reason to go on about the
religious beliefs of the early American figures is to justify current
political movement's attempts to force their religious beliefs onto the
rest of the population.
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