alt.education

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:37:05 +0100 in
47d0f0a1$0$2102$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk, "thomas p."
wrote:

> "Mark K. Bilbo" skrev i en meddelelse
> news:59h6a5-ro.ln1@dialup-4.230.135.222.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net...
>> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:45:29 +0000 in
>> tt41t31tknjmda9d8t438h4a8nrmplprqq@4ax.com, Jd
>> wrote:
>>
>>> thomas p. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Jd" skrev i en meddelelse
>>>>news:g8kus3d1f4ij0nehbci4vvppisea3qhanf@4ax.com...
>>>>> thomas p. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So, once again, no matter what some of the founders thought or
>>>>>> said, the
>>>>>> country was established on firmly
>>>>>>secular grounds.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't make any sense. The founding fathers founded the
>>>>> country so it does indeed matter what
>>>>> they said and thought. Undoubtedly, they thought God had a hand in
>>>>> founding the Nation since
>>>>> afterall, that is what they said.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What they actually wrote down and that became accepted as the founding
>>>>document for the US is what matters. Some of the founders you talk
>>>>about were deists, not Christians. Some rejected the divinity of
>>>>Jesus (all the deists and some of the others). Some were Christians.
>>>>The document itself reflected the thoughts of men such as Montesquieu,
>>>>Dederot, Voltaire, Rousseau, none of these were Christians; and no
>>>>part of the document is Christian; it is purely secular.
>>>
>>> What document are you referring to? There are a plethora of documents
>>> which do indeed mention God.
>>>
>>> If you are referring to the US Constitution, vitually all 55 of the
>>> authors/signers were Christians of one denomination or another....
>>
>> Oh look, he just noticed the Constitution doesn't yap about "god" so
>> he's gotta make a sudden swerve into "But they said 'god' at other
>> times!"
>
>
> He also was good enough to inform me that the American colonies were
> under British rule. Gosh, you learn something new every day.

They were whaaaaa???

Really? Are you sure???


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