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Author Topic:   Paul Harvey's take on prayer in public/Xmas (In general, a "freedom of speech" topic)
Buzsaw
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Message 106 of 165 (174388)
01-06-2005 11:22 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by coffee_addict
01-03-2005 1:47 PM


By the way, believing in Santa Claus is not a religion, and neither is going around for trick or treat during Holloween. Please grow up.
For the record, St Nicholas was a real person, a very sectarian religious Roman Catholic priest. Being of one denomination of Christianity, Santa stuff is more of a religious establishment statement than Jesus, because Jesus includes all Christian faiths. Thus Jesus stuff is more freely exercising Christianity than is Santa stuff which is sectorial. In fact, it was the past inquisitions of Roman Catholic priests and bishops that the writers were concerned about when they wrote this ammendment, because Jesus was preached, taught and sang about right in Congress. (No RC priestly functions were involved in these services.)

The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz

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Buzsaw
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Message 113 of 165 (174422)
01-06-2005 12:29 PM
Reply to: Message 95 by contracycle
01-06-2005 6:48 AM


Re: Land of the Free and Home of the Brain Dead
The founders are dead and what they wanted is utterly unimportant.
What they wanted has been tried and tested. What they wanted produced the greatest, the most prosperous, the most blessed and the most free society ever. It wasn't broke until folks began fixing it. Now we're loosing it, one law at a time. At the rate you revisionists are revising, it'l be gone soon and we'll join the loosers and the oppressed. I've been watching it's moral and Biblical decline for 50 of my nearly 70 years along with the loss of personal freedom; freedoms which Biblical principles bring.
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Buzsaw
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Message 130 of 165 (174557)
01-06-2005 11:39 PM
Reply to: Message 115 by berberry
01-06-2005 12:40 PM


Re: Ungrateful American
Everything was just fine so long as we allowed slavery, denied women the vote and the right to own property, enforced segregation laws......
These things were accepted nearly worldwide at the time. In spite of them, people were desperately wanting to migrate to America. Even many of the slaves who had Christian masters had had a better life here than in the pagan jungle tribe where they often lived in fear and danger.
forced children into working 16-hour days in sweatshop factories, pursued polices to perpetuate poverty and starvation, etc.
Oh, come now. What percentage of America's children were forced to do this.......certainly a tiny percentage of all the children and there has been after America was established, relatively miniscule incidence of starvation and far less poverty than in most of the world. Why do you think people were waiting in line to emigrate here?

The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz

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