Happy Seperation of Church and State Day |
Happy Seperation of Church and State Day |
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![]() 我爱台妹,台妹爱我 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 877 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 52,340 ![]() |
let us all take a moment to honor the fundamental principle of our government that the current administration is working so hard to preserve
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![]() oooh yeah. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,333 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 376,533 ![]() |
^Uhm, they didn't settle to create the US. They settled as a colony of England, which has a state religion. The founding of the United States happened way later. And the seperation of church and state is clearly recognized in the US Constitution.
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![]() Yeter Poon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 316 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 495 ![]() |
^Uhm, they didn't settle to create the US. They settled as a colony of England, which has a state religion. The founding of the United States happened way later. And the seperation of church and state is clearly recognized in the US Constitution. They settled as a colony of England, which has a state religion. The pilgrims and puritans settled in the new continent as a means to break free from the restricted state religion of England. Religion played a great role in the Revolution by offering a moral sanction for the opposition of the British. I wasn't referring to the development of the country of US because for obvious reasons there are to be no ties between the government and religion. The constitution is a secular piece of writing. I was plainly referring to the settlement of the colonies as a nation-state (for that definition refer to Benedict Arnold's writting on nationalism and nation-states), that the colonies were formed under the basis of religion. And without such settlment you cannot notedly argue that there would even be an America today. Dip shits... |
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They settled as a colony of England, which has a state religion. The pilgrims and puritans settled in the new continent as a means to break free from the restricted state religion of England. Religion played a great role in the Revolution by offering a moral sanction for the opposition of the British. I wasn't referring to the development of the country of US because for obvious reasons there are to be no ties between the government and religion. The constitution is a secular piece of writing. I was plainly referring to the settlement of the colonies as a nation-state (for that definition refer to Benedict Arnold's writting on nationalism and nation-states), that the colonies were formed under the basis of religion. And without such settlment you cannot notedly argue that there would even be an America today. Dip shits... calm down. ![]() |
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