Text 28588, 61 rader
Skriven 2015-10-11 05:35:09 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 28582 av BOB ACKLEY (1:123/140)
Ärende: WWIII
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Hello Bob,

 BF>>> What made you guys add that "under God" anyway? Were you worried that
 BF>>> the Christian God had abandoned you because of the Korean police
 BA> action?

 >> As the resident "non-American authority on American things" I need to
 BA> point out
 >> that the USA knows a strict adherance to the freedom of religion.
 BA> Although to
 >> me it often sounds as "you are free to pick your religion, but you
 BA> cannot be
 >> without". You are not free of religion.

 BA> For the past several decades, organized (read: Christian) religion in this
 BA> country has been declining in membership.

Religion has never been organized in this country.  And I thank
God for that.  We kept fighting amongst ourselves over religion
before we even settled this land called America and we kept
fighting over religion afterwards.  Imagine the horror for those
who would be forced to suffer under a state-sponsored religion.
It would be like American Taliban being the government.

 BA> The Catholic church in particular (not to mention a severe shortage of
 BA> priests and nuns) but also some Protestant denominations.

With no more little boys to fuck they had to start looking elsewhere.

 >> Churches fullfil a very central role and the social control is immense.

 BA> They did.  And in some areas they still do, but by and large their
 BA> influence is declining.

Religion is the opium of the people.  Always has been, always will
be.  In this land, and in every land.

Jesus railed against religion his entire adult life.  And look
what it got him.  Pegged to a tree.  With his mother looking on
in disgust.

 >> Then again there's the question of what to do with the non-christian
 BA> beliefs. I
 >> am looking forward to the day when on my BSA camp one of the kids
 BA> interrupts
 >> the merit badge instruction, gets out his prayer mat and starts praying
 BA> towards
 >> Mecca...

 BA> That might happen.  Although I don't think the BSA system is compatible
with
 BA> Islam in general.

That is why Muslims will make the BSA compatible with their own.
It is what they do.  It is what all religionists do.  Whether they
call themselves Muslim, Jew, Christian, Buddhist, ...

--Lee

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