Originally posted by Robtard
Be careful JIA! You might catch what he has! Aaaahhhhhh...!
I get it now, You want me to be careful of catching Imperial_Samura's atheistic germs or cooties? At first I didn't understand what your cartoon meant.
I don't believe that Imperial_Samura has atheistic cooties though, I just wanted to know why he was an atheist.
Re: Re: Re: JesusIsAlive, you have yet to address what the Founding Fathers have to say:
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
In no way does the above address that James Adams and George Washington specifically stated that the United States of America is not a Christian nation; that Benjamin Franklin did not believe Jesus to be divine; that James Madison condemned Christianity; that Thomas Robert Paine condemned The Bible; or that George Washington stated that the government of the United States of America is to be secular.Moreover, even if we accept the quotes you posted to be true, it would only prove that some of the Founding Fathers believed in [b]a
god, not that they believed in your God. This would be consistent with the fact that nearly all of the Founding Fathers were Diests or Freemasons, and that few, if any, were Christians. [/B]
Is America a Christian nation?
"...(Church of The Holy Trinity vs. The United States.)
"No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people...."
A Letter from Thomas Jefferson, one of the framers of, and rightful interpreters of, The US Constitution:
To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more & more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of SEPERATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
(signed) Thomas Jefferson
Jan.1.1802.