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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Marriage and religion
  • Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:54:48 -0500

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:27 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Marriage and religion
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:
>
> > It may be a deist belief or the belief of other religions, but it
> > doesn't
> > exclude it from also being a Christian belief. The question then
> > becomes
> > how many of the authors of those documents were Buddhist, Taoist,
> > Islamic,
> > etc. I think the answer is none. And since all of the founding
> > fathers
> > came from a Judeo/Christian background, I think the attribution of
> > those
> > concepts is appropriate.
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.atheists.org/courthouse/charlotte.html#inaccurate
>
> (i.e., fabricated, made up, misquoted, etc.)


Many of them might be. But none of them that I used were on the list. And
I highly doubt atheists.org is without bias.

(i.e. they have an agenda, a cause, an issue, etc.)

I'm simply arguing that to say our government was founded devoid of
Christian principles is the equivalent of saying the world is flat.










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