AMERiCA WAS f0UNdEd ON thE BASiC BUildiNG bl0CkS tHAt jESUS ChRiSt iS OUR SAViOR, it iS Sh0WN EVERydAy WhEN WE PAy iN CASh ANd WE tURN 0VER OUR billS/C0iNS thAt StAtE "IN G0d WE tRUSt". N0t 0Nly d0 WE SAy it EVERy MORNiNG iN SCh00l AS A PlEdGE BUt WE USE hiS C0MMANdMENtS AS A M0RAl BOUNdARiES. LAtEly AMERiCA hAS fAllEN iNt0 A StAtE 0f EMERGENCy WitH OUR P00R EC0N0My ANd C0NStENt WARS. MEAN WhilE At thiS tiME P0RN ANd StRiP ClUBS ARE At A hiGH. MAYBE AMERiCAS d0WNfAll iS dUE tO itS iNABility t0 f0ll0W G0dS C0MMANdMENtS ANd tHAt hE iS tRyiNG t0 WARN US tHAt thE PAtH WE ARE tAkiNG iS A PAtH tO dEStRUCti0N. D0Nt BEliEVE ME.??. F0R EXAMPlE, NEW 0RlEANS, l0UiSANA iS kN0WN f0R WhAt.??. ItS Vi0lENCE ANd h0Stility, t0 tHE Pi0Nt WhERE N0N-l0CAlS ARE tERRifyiEd t0 ENtER tH0SE tERR0t0RiES. ThAt WAS tHEN, kN0W AftER hURRiCANE kAtRiNA 0CCUREd A NAtURAl diSAStER tHAt Sh00k AMERiCA fiNANCiAlly ANd EM0ti0NAlly, NEW 0RlEANS iS A BRANd NEW PlACE WitH NEW h0MES ANd f0R thE RESidENtS A M0RE GREAtfUl ANd P0SitiVE OUtl00k. FRiENdS tHAt i KN0W thAt liVE iN NEW 0RlEANS fEEl AS tHOUGH it'S M0RE 0f A SAfE PlACE tO liVE tHEN it hAS BEEN iN tHE PASt. ThOUGH it Still hAS itS ROUGh PAtChES tHE l0CAlS ARE WilliNG t0 fiGHt tHROUGh tHEM.ANd thERE ARE MANy M0RE EVENtS thAt hAVE 0CCUREd thAt ARE SiMilAr t0 tHiS 0NE.
IN My EyES tHE WAR, Vi0lENCE, NAtURAl DiSAStERS, tHE P00R EC0N0My ANd tERR0RiSM iS jUSt thE BEGiNNiNG. AS l0NG AS AMERiCA iGN0RES tHE V0iCE 0f G0d ANd hiS CAlliNG t0 hiS PE0PlE i hAVE A G00d fEEliNG tHESE tRiAlS ARE N0t G0iNG t0 ENd S0 EASily. S0 tEENAGERS tURN AWAy fR0M tHE dRUGS (WEEd), hUSBANdS && WifES tURN AWAy fR0M lUSt && ADUltERy, PR0dUCERS tURN AWAy fR0M GREEd, killERS tURN AWAy fR0M tHE dEVil hiMSElf, ANd AMERiCA tURN AWAy fR0M StUBB0RNESS. TURN AWAy fR0M All thESE SiNS ANd WR0NG d0iNGS ANd tURN t0WARd tHE 0NE ANd 0Nly tHiNG tHAt COUld SAVE US kN0W it iS CAllEd thE W0Rd 0f G0d tHE BiBlE.
hAS AMERiCA f0RG0ttEN G0d.??.
By elyssia saray - Posted on October 1st, 2008
Tagged: The truth
As much as I appreciate the time and effort it must have taken to type that all out, it is incredibly difficult to read.
You will get more reads and comments on your blogs if you type in with normal case letters and separate paragraphs. It's difficult to read large blocks of mostly capital letters because there is no variety with the height and width of letters--something most people need to be able to easily decipher and comprehend words.
If there are certain words or phrases that you would like to emphasize, html tags to will allow you to make something in <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>.
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'Nuff said.
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In god we trust was added to the coins in the 50's, as were the words under god to the pledge. Other than that, I get a headache looking at the blog. I strongly advice that you type in a way more people can easily read.
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Thank you Phelps family for yet another brainwashed child...thank you.
The Phelps are our friends...
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Achoo!
sorry, im allergic to bullshit.
lol, yay for the bailout fucking over the world economy!
Huzzah!
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Am I to understand that you think God sent a hurricane to New Orleans because there was to much sin, thats ludicrous. And although America was founded on Christian values, it isn't a "Christian" nation. People are free to practice any religion they feel to be right, or can chose not to practice at all. You have some really twisted ideas, and need to look at what the real world is, not the one your parents raised you in. Also you need to reformat you post or no one will want to read it.
Why New Orleans? Why not an earthquake to destroy the Castro district of L.A? Why not NYC? Why not wiping other small countries of the face of the earth for not following gods will? How can you assume what god's plan is, if only he himself knows what he is doing? Killers are not influenced by the devil, but their own humanity and the darkest parts of the human mind. Those who belive will be rewarded in the afterlife, but it is our right as americans to fallow a different set of morals (as long as they are within the law) as the christian. Am I to believe that you think all the people in New Orleans were all sinners? We are all sinners in gods eyes, and you would do well to remember that.
Faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.
-Dogma
And who will be discerning "God's" message?
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America wasn't founded on that principle. In fact, it was founded on something completely different. Freedom from England, if I recall the colonists didn't want to pay taxes. Isn't that a sin?
There are a lot more and detailed reasons why America was founded. Many of the colonies, which would become the United States of America were founded for religious reasons.
...of the "religious reasons" behind some of the 13 colonies that became the original 13 members of the new United States would be the Massachussetts Bay Colony. This group of Puritans certainly had a "religious reason" for wanting to leave England and settle elsewhere. But, what was that reason? In fact, these Puritans--having been subjected to significant and even violent persecution in England--came seeking religious freedom.
More than a hundred years later during the Founding Period of the United States, these Puritans (along with most other religious groups in this country) were strongly in favor of the separation of church and state. This principle was summed up very well, I think, by our first President, speaking specifically on the subject of religious tolerance and the relation of religion to our government...
It is also important to note that for whatever reason these various colonies were formed, the fact remains that when it came time to ratify the Constitution, the great mojority of States would only agree to sign on the dotted line if that Constitution were amended to specifically protect the religious freedom of their citizens, and that this freedom was specifically intended to include non-christian religions and even atheists can easily be demonstrated in the writings of those Founding Fathers most closely related to the crafting of the First Amendment. For example, Thomas Jefferson said in regards to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom (which was of course the document upon which the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was based), that...
Combined with the official acts of our early Congress, such as in the Treaty of Tripoli (commissioned by George Washington, passed unanimously in the Senate, and signed into Law by John Adams) which says...
...it seems difficult (even impossible) to rationally defend the idea that the founding of this country was "religious" in the way that you imply.
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All of your facts and quotes are good, but this nation was founded on a religious foundation. The colonies were set up to allow the setters practice their own religion, but they didn't want others coming in. You talk about the Massachusetts Bay Colony set up by the puritans. They wanted to escape religious persecution in England, but they didn't want Catholics or Atheist in their colony. And separation of church and state was set up to keep government out of religion, not religion out of the government.
Actually, the puritans weren't escaping England's rule by that point. They had gone to the Netherlands to begin with. I'll get the quote from the text, but I believe it was in Winthrop's A Reason hereof secion. My point is, however; that the actual contury wasn't founded on those princples. Did the DOI give any religious reason for their independence?
No the DOI did not give any religious reasons for independence, but that doesn't mean they weren't there. People have a hard time separating their religious values from their political values. Thats why gay marriage, abortion, and stem cell research are such hot topic buttons.
...had much less trouble with this than modern christians, it seems. For example, Alexis de Tocqueville reported in his Democracy in America that...
Again, the facts of history would seem to refute your ideas.
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There was certainly a lot of religious intolerance in the Early Colonies, but that intolerance was not something that generally speaking our early settlers and their descendants were prone to accept in their governments. As a group, the Puritans were dedicated to the separation between the church and the State. For example, the Massachusetts Bay Colony rejected the idea of a State-run church and even prohibited ministers from holding public office. One of the most famous Puritans of the period was Roger Williams, whose A Plea For Religious Liberty stated in regards to the Puritan communities of New England that...
The contents of our history simply does not support your position, my friend.
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Roger Williams was exiled form the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He then went on to for Providence, in Rhode Island, were there was separation of church and state. Yes he was for freedom of religion, and separation of church and state, but that is only one man. He was kicked out because of his ideas.
In essence, Roger Williams was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for promoting the "dangerous idea" that the Native American Peoples, and not the King of England, were the rightful owners of the lands on which the Colony sat, and that it was wrong to engage in the forced conversion of these people. His exile was not, as you suggest, based on his religious beliefs, but rather because he challenged the "rights" of the English Crown.
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That may be part of the reason, but it was also because he did not believe that the government should force people to attend church.
He denounced the Church of England, declared that King George was not a true christian, refused to take an oath of loyalty to the Crown. It was his consistent and outspoken criticism of English institutions that got him in trouble, not his support for church/state separation.
But you seem to be missing one very important point. England had an official state religion, and was very repressive towards any religious group that did not pay "proper" respect to it. Thus, ALL of the original colonies had at least some sort of religious acknowledgment in their chartering documents. After all, the laws of England required it. However, when those colonies broke away from England, and formed the United States of American, the jointly established that Freedom of Religion was one of the core rights necessary for our government.
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Wasn't he charged because of his allegations towards King James?