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#1440953
Mister Spak
"God and the United States are merged very strongly. "
Article six. You fail very strongly.
8/30/2012 5:37:24 AM
#1440964
Percy Q. Shunn
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
8/30/2012 5:46:43 AM
#1440978
Dr.Shrinker
"Why can some of you not see our freedoms folks not grasp the truth that Americans have never given up their faith in God?"
- Would a "godly" nation have the highest incarceration rate in the world? Would a "godly" nation deny health care to its people simply because they were poor? Would a "godly" nation pander to those in power while lowering the standard of living for the working poor?
If the the USA is being guided by your god then your god is a plague on humanity and should be given up on!
8/30/2012 6:04:12 AM
#1440986
dionysus
I can only assume that it's Opposite Day. Nobody could possibly be this wrong about everything without it being deliberate.
8/30/2012 6:07:20 AM
#1440990
John_in_Oz
All Americans worship almighty Zeus!
8/30/2012 6:09:15 AM
#1441008
Oh My Dog!
What this boils down to is that you want a theocracy.
It isn't going to happen if I can help it.
Americans have chosen an absolute God as the bases of government.
Not this American! I don't like your God, I don't have to either, and that is my right. I don't try and force you to follow my beliefs, so I expect the same consideration from you.
Why is that so hard to understand?
8/30/2012 6:26:00 AM
#1441015
Pule Thamex
Governance by sky fairy. Periocracy.
I'm sure that inhumanists and illiberals will pretend to try and keep a pretend being at the centre of their government.
8/30/2012 6:32:08 AM
#1441017
SpukiKitty
Uh, the "Church" in "Church & State" refers to God, DUMMY!
8/30/2012 6:37:50 AM
#1441025
Mystik Spiral
You are either a very prolific liar or monumentally stupid. Quite possibly both.
8/30/2012 6:56:33 AM
#1441034
Arctic Knight
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
? Stephen Colbert
8/30/2012 7:18:18 AM
#1441035
Leighton Buzzard
Yeah? who voted for god?
8/30/2012 7:18:55 AM
#1441038
Horsefeathers
I really don't understand where people like Gadfly get these bizarre ideas.
8/30/2012 7:23:30 AM
#1441043
Anon-e-moose
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Click the above, Gadfly. Read it very carefully. Done that, Gadfly? Good. Now, find for me the words 'God', Jesus' and 'Creator' therein. To make things easier, just click 'Edit', then 'Find' on your browser, and type in those words, one after the other.
The phrase 'When you see it (or in this case,
not) you'll shit bricks'. It exists for a
reason. 'When God is gone then we are gone as a unique country and our freedoms and liberties are gone'?!
He never fucking existed there in the first place, as your own Constitution proves.
The phrase 'Separation of Church and State'.
That exists for a reason; as in 'We the government won't tell you who/how to worship, you the fundies don't have the fucking
right to tell us how to run the country'.
The reason being that the alternative, as demonstrated by Saudi Arabia & Iran: Theocracies.
Moral: Theocracy. Democracy. Learn the difference. It could save your life.
Literally.
8/30/2012 7:32:12 AM
#1441058
gravematter
I have the feeling that if America was "God's Chosen Country" TM then it would be referreed to in the Bible. There IS nothing unique about the US. It's just a country like any other. Although it does have quite a large proportion of crazies for a "First-World" country. Is that what you meant?
8/30/2012 7:50:50 AM
#1441061
LAchlan
Shut it you fucking idiot.
8/30/2012 7:51:45 AM
#1441078
Filin De Blanc
All the people trying to take away your freedoms and liberties are doing it because they think it's God's will.
8/30/2012 8:16:51 AM
#1441090
J. James
"Why can some of you not see our freedoms folks not grasp the truth that Americans have never given up their faith in God?"
Is that why identifying with a religion in the US has dropped from over 70% in 2005 to just 60% in 2011?
8/30/2012 8:52:23 AM
#1441093
TomA
"America is unique among democratic countries because we have kept God as a provider of our self-evident rights"
Contradiction. If you have God as provider of "self-evident" rights then you cannot call yourself a democratic country, unless of course you hold regular elections for the position of God, which would be pretty cool now I think about it.
8/30/2012 9:07:08 AM
#1441109
pete
Somewhere between "the opposite of true" and "not even wrong".
8/30/2012 10:04:19 AM
#1441111
Quantum Mechanic
'very'
That word you use, it does not mean what you think it means.
8/30/2012 10:07:23 AM
#1441113
freako104
Umm. Yeah. No words. This is epic stupidity
8/30/2012 10:08:32 AM
#1441136
fapwank
"Some are having trouble in understanding elementary school civics."
Precisely, namely you.
"When God is gone then we are gone as a unique country and our freedoms and liberties are gone."
That would be the case if the founding fathers hadn't declared the clergy to be enemies of liberty.
"Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not." -- James Madison
"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -- Thomas Jefferson
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the Common Law." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion." -- Thomas Paine
Etc, etc.
8/30/2012 11:07:15 AM
#1441141
WWWWolf
> America is unique among democratic countries because we have kept God as a provider of our self-evident rights.
And when European democratic countries have the same "self-evident rights", but do not refer to God, and somehow manage to maintain those human rights at times even better than Americans, what does that tell you?
8/30/2012 11:20:04 AM
#1441148
Not to worry, Gadfly, Iran and Saudi Arabia still have God very strongly merged with their governments. Feel free to move there!
8/30/2012 11:52:20 AM
#1441150
checkmate
we have kept God as a provider of our self-evident rights.
Let me guess, you mean the 2nd amendment, right?
And don't forget capital punishment. Jesus just **loves** capital punishment.
8/30/2012 11:55:05 AM
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